Posted by
beltway girl on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:06:17 AM
Obama's widespread appeal terrifies the establishment Democrats.
This is a party that nominated Walter Mondale. This is a party that nominated Michael Dukakis. This is a party that nominated John Kerry. This is a party that loves to lose. That war-mongerer Patton may have said that America loves a winner; but he didn't know the DNC of today.
Democrats don't really want to win. "Winners" are not good people. Winners don't know pain and suffering. Winners don't accept reality.
The Democrats-- for several deacades-- equate loss at the polls with victories in virtue. They won't say it. No, they know the "little people" out there, punching the ballots, wouldn't like it. These are the delusional Democrats, who think their votes should count. Who don't think we're in a parliament in Europe running a perpetual opposition party. Who think that, okay, this is a political race. The party bigwigs are trying to win this.
Nothing brings home the bacon to voters better than a win, and that includes pork. There's nothing like winning, and the little people, who actually watch sports and American Idol and Top Chef instead of Tim Russert, know this.
The establishment, unfortunately, doesn't share this respect for a winner. In fact, they have a thriving and completely unwholesome disrespect for one.
Why?
Well, "winners" might have their name punched by someone with the mentality of someone... in a red state. Someone who actually thinks abortion is wrong! And not just personally repugnant, but wrong when carried out on a grand (and virtually unchecked) scale. Worse yet, they might actually be in a red state!
It might not be abortion. It could be any of the various social solutions proposed by the left for the plethora of problems that exist in America today. The solutions that amount to a band-aid on top of a brain hemorrhage.
It might have gotten to the point where it's bad enough where America might be ready, willing, and able to reject the DNC's radical social agenda very soon. And they know this. And it scares them.
Returning a moment to this theory of the DNC's love affair with losing elections, one has to wonder, then, how Bill Clinton ascended to his throne.
The marriage.
It was the marriage, and the Southern charm. One was just as important as the other.
No, no, not Bill's marriage to Hillary. It was the marriage of the left's radical social agenda to liberal spending policies. This is in place in many of their losing elections, too, but minus Clinton's charm and crucially important regional Southern appeal.
Bill didn't break up the marriage. It would have been to his detriment to do so. His Southern charm would not have given him the electoral bankroll to dissolve it, even had he wanted to do so.
But that doesn't mean it will be unthreatened forever, and who is this Obama, anyway? And this is where the fear enters in.
He's getting big turnouts in these traditionally red states, and in swing states. What if he turns these states? Will he feel some affinity towards these voters, should he win? Will he feel some obligation to them? Do we of the establishment feel like we can trust him to ignore these voters?
Why are they voting for him, and what do they expect in return? Why does he talk about Reagan like he was actually human? And what's all this crap about working together to get things done?
That's McCain's job!
Yes, and it scares them to think it might start to become their job, too.
And this is why the party establishment, so in love with losing, is scared to death. Isn't it better to lose the presidency, but keep that marriage together?
Maybe the voters will finally get to answer that question, especially now, when the brave new world isn't looking so brave after all. The marriage may not fall apart, but the fear of its doing just that will continue to be an overwhelming dynamic in Democratic elections.