Quote of the Day

By Ron Beasley

The quote of the day comes from conservative Rick Moran:

McCain needed Obama to show up drunk. He didn’t.

And Rick has more:

Last May, when it appeared that Obama had the nomination wrapped up, I wrote a post predicting how the race in the fall would unfold:”Party Like it’s 1980 All Over Again” wasn’t breaking any new ground nor was it necessarily prescient. Democratic strategists had been predicting for months that the mood of the country and the trends were all breaking their way and that the November election had an excellent chance of being a “change” election.

But what really resonated with me back then and what recalled similar feelings from 1980 was the nature of the matchup between McCain and Obama; untested and relative unknown versus incumbent (experience). The way the 1980 race developed, people were unsure of the unknown commodity until after the one debate held between Carter and Reagan. When Reagan showed himself to be a reasonable alternative to the status quo, the floodgates opened and he won going away.

I believed then and believe now that Obama’s comfortable 6-8 point lead will mushroom in the next 3 weeks and make election day a holy living hell for the GOP with a landslide in both the popular vote and electoral college for Obama and a sweeping away of many Republican stalwarts in the House and Senate. It will be an historic repudiation of Republicans and will place the party in a position where it will probably spend a decade or more in the wilderness.

Obama won all three debates because he proved to enough people that he wasn't too inexperienced or too scary to be president.  The issues were always on Obama's side.  On FOX last night Charles Krauthammer said he didn't even think Ronald Reagan could have won this year.

Rick says it's time for the Republicans to try to prevent more loses in the House and Senate, especially try to avoid a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.  He thinks McCain could help with that but will he.

Comments

[HyperIon]

you write: "And Rick has more."

Rick ALWAYS has more, more than 950 words this time. That guy does not know what a short blog post is. It's hard to get to the end of any of them IMO.

The good news: he's so despondent now that he is forgetting his signature whine "but the Dems are way worse."