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The much maligned Dean 50 state strategy is poised to pay off big. Whether it was coincidence or prescience on his part in his decision as chairman to establish a ground game in all 50 states doesn't matter, the fact is a perfect storm of political tornadoes has hit the GOP at the worst possible time and we are poised to take full advatage of it.
It's just a few weeks before election day...and the winds are blowing hard in the faces of the Republican incumbents in Congress, real hard!
Just look at these
polls and notice all the BLUE!
Fred Barnes (an asshole of mythic proportions) just happened to get it right when he said
But in the sixth year of the Bush presidency, with a GOP-run Congress, Democrats aren't the issue. Republicans are.
This explains why efforts by Bush and Republicans to target Democrats have been so unsuccessful. A veteran Republican consultant says lavish spending on TV commercials in races he's involved in has largely failed to either boost the poll numbers of his Republican candidates or drive down those of Democrats. Worse, in blue states, the Democratic crossover vote on which Republican candidates often rely has dried up. Democrats have gone home in droves.
In other words...they are in deep shit with voters in all groups except the most hard-core, koolaid drinking, bible-thumping, hard Right wingers and the money they've thrown at the other voting blocks isn't moving thier numbers at all!
If a grassroots Democratic cash infusion in the last 3 weeks can shore-up just enough support to offset the RNC cash machines negative advertisements made to scare voters, denigrate Dems and tip the scales slightly in favor of the incumbent, that should be all it takes to blow the GOP doors off in November.
Rove, the boy genius, the "Architect", may turn out to have been the Democrats greatest political asset. And that must just kill him!
Starting with making Terri Schiavo a Republican "culture of life" issue all the way to urging Republicans to back Bush on his "stay the course" strategy in Iraq, has done more than his part to piss in the well of the GOP expansion... more than anyone at the time could have known.
He should be credited, more than anyone else in my opinion, in helping to stem the tide and ultimatly blow away the Republican strangle hold on the Government. I can't say exactly how he got so far off track since he's seen as a pretty smart strategist, probably from hubris and actually believing his own bullshit. Who knows...who cares.
The fact is he was real wrong and now they pay the price.
Plus we can't forget to thank the corrupt, greedy, over-confident GOP leadership and membership for adding generously to the effort by adopting his strategy that "you don't need swing voters and Independents, all you need is to energize the base" which worked for awhile but has now come home to roost.
So send cash my Democratic friends! All you can spare and then a little more!!
Call your friends, your relatives, people that owe you money, strangers on the street, anyone...and urge them to send whatever they can to their local Democratic candidate now.
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel and this time it doesn't seem to be locomotive barreling our way(I pray)...but we can't stop now.
Now is when we need to be our smartest, our most generous, our most tactical and push the hardest...and sending money would be a very effective way to to put the final nail in the GOP coffin.
If we can take both Houses of Congress this election cycle it will be the realization of a dream that I hardly dared to dream just 3 weeks ago.
Maybe this is proof there is a God and even if he's not actually a registered Democrat, I'm sure as hell he's sick and tired of being associated with the current Republican party!