Let’s play a game of Guess That Pundit! OK, here’s the start of the column:
Forget conventional wisdom: Republicans have a real shot at taking control of the Senate, as well as the House, in the U.S. midterm elections.
“This is going to be a massive election like 1974, except it will happen to the Democrats this time,” says Bill McInturff, a leading Republican pollster, alluding to the Democratic landslide more than three-and-a-half decades ago. “The Senate is in play.”
No fair peeking. Who could it be? George Will? No, doesn’t read “clever” enough. Could it be Charles Krauthammer? Hmm — clean language, but lacking force. Maybe Thomas Sowell? Nah, doesn’t have a philosophical angle.
So which rightwing nutcase could possibly think that the Senate is in play?
The article reads like a leftist whinefest.
Every “detached” observer says that the stimulus was a success? (but it’s “unpopular anyway…sniff, sob, whine)
Detached from what? Reality?
Wisconsin is in play “even though unemployment is not a problem there at all at 7.6% and 60,000 jobs were either saved or created out of whole cloth by the wonderful world of miracle making”.
What a cosmic joke. Russ Feingold is a maverick, an independent sort who goes his own way…and is now being punished for it?
The inane and insane left is now mewling about how unfair this all is, because after all…they have done wonderful, wonderful things for everyone and they just are so darn unappreciated. They could lose the House, lose the Senate…just for doing all the right things. Isn’t that so sad and unfair…brings a tear to the eye.
I’m getting a little misty just thinking about it. Keeping singing, Al…”Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree…”
I think the Dems and their supporters are desperately trying to move the target for this November so that the predictions are as epically bad as possible. That way, if we fall short, they can claim a moral victory and a “mandate” for their policies.
If we “only” win eight or nine seats in the Senate, and “only” win 50 to 60 seats in the House, then obviously the GAP still sees some hope in Hope’n'Change. “Yes,” the Dems’ll say, “we’ve clearly got some work ahead of us in accurately getting our message out. But the voters of this country still trust us to get the job done for which they hired us in 2006 and 2008.” Blah, blah, blah.
Damn the Tea Partiers! Full speed ahead!