I write today primarily to direct your attention to this diary by srkp23. Please go recommend it because it is full of WIN!
Read it and laugh, because the writing is on the wall.
Once you've read and recommended the awesomeness that is Kossack srkp23's diary, come back here below the fold. I have my own thoughts . . .
(Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com)
Momentum is ours, and the GOP is SCREWED in more ways than one, and they know it.
Despite all the screaming YOU LIE, SOCIALIST, HITLER, RACIST WHO HATES WHITE PEOPLE and so on, President Obama enjoys a good popularity rating. (45-48) Their screeching IS NOT WORKING. The GOP has LOST it's moderate base. GONE. All that is left is the screeching lowest common denominator of leftover Bush voters and Beck and Palin fans. They are fired up, and have been since inauguration day. But they aren't enough to win, frankly, and the GOP strategists have to know this, because people in their tent are getting a little scared.
If Republicans fail to pick up a majority in either house of Congress they will be COMPLETELY demoralized, and it will be totally awesome, and I'm bringing beer. And it is happening, races are tightening that Republicans NEED to win if they are to claim a House majority. The math is against them too. If Dems pick up 4 or 5 seats (DE-AL, IL-10, and HI-01 look like they can be picked up, and we are likely to win at least 1 or 2 other House seats we didn't expect.) the GOP needs to pick up 39 House seats + the 4 or so the Dems win. I don't see that happening.
By going fucknuts insane, by being led by the nose by Limbaugh and Beck, and on occasion Cheney and his daughter or Boehner, Cantor and McConell or DeMint, because of Palin and most of all the memories of George W. Bush, the GOP has LOST the young vote and have REPELLED voters who are NOT their crazed, fanatic base.
The strategy of "speaking through Fox alone" and hiding, running from and avoiding potentially embarrassing, not completely orchestrated media events is beginning to hurt Republicans, giving the public a chance to hear what Dems are saying at just the time when voters are starting to pay attention. The republicans have painted themselves into a corner on this because they have run a field of awful, idiotic, contradictory and unqualified bunch of cranks for office. If Republicans think they've lost the Senate because of Christine the Teenage Witch's rise to public derision and now they are unsure of their chances at control of the House two things are sure to happen, Republicans will be forced to amp up the dog whistles to rally their hard core base and voters who are on the whole (48%) okay with Obama will see him as the face of the Democratic party, as they should. And voters who don't HATE Obama already will choose between an out of touch, unqualified GOP and Obama and the Democrats.
But long term, with a population that is becoming more multi-cultural, the GOP is totally screwed. They can't use a 50 State southern strategery for the next 20 years, or even the next decade. They can't speak through Fox and their tv hosts forever, and they can't win votes from people they are alienating. It may not happen all at once, or this may be the beginning of the end in 2010 if the GOP can't win either house, but the GOP is SCREWED and they know it, and in the long term, with their current game plan, they are so screwed it isn't either funny.
Unless you are like me. Then it is funny as hell.
Now let's get out there . . .
Peace
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