The Experience Of Defeat

The moral supremacist's biggest nightmare is the day that his propaganda isn't just ineffective, but has completely backfired.

Obamunists, welcome to Judgment Day:

Most U.S. voters believe the Democratic congressional agenda is extreme, while a plurality describe the Republican agenda as mainstream.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think the agenda of Democrats in Congress is extreme. Thirty-four percent (34%) say it is more accurate to describe the Democratic agenda as mainstream.

Ensign Ed suggests an intriguing parallel with our right-wing neighbors north of the border:

This reminds me of the last stages of Liberal control in Canada after the Adscam scandal.  Liberal Party leadership insisted that while their party was corrupt, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party were so extreme that being crooks was the lesser of two evils.  They managed to survive a few months, but eventually had to call elections — and got beat handily.  Harper has run the nation since then with much popular support, and the scare tactics of the Liberals backfired on them.

Donks seem to be unwinding the spool of past obnoxious campaign themes.  They were going to run on ObamaCare, but that tyrannical tumor didn't miraculously become popular, so then they went back a few years to BushBushBushBushBush, and that isn't panning out.  So it's back to the Clinton era and taunting 'Pubbies as "extremists," which reminds me not of Canadian politics but of the 2006 election cycle where the GOP's top drawer strategy was to make Crazy Nancy into a scarecrow.  With their less than sterling fiscal record and the Foley/Craig/Cunningham/Ney scandals swirling about them, Republicans campaigning on a "Speaker Pelosi" creature-feature - as spot-on as it was (as we have so dolefully seen since) - wasn't gonna cut it.  It SHOULD have, but it didn't.  Twelve years was long enough for the electorate to have changed enough that a lot of more recently minted voters didn't remember how corrupt and tyrannical the Dems were the last time they had the majorities.  And so Da Pendulum swung in its time-immemorial fashion and cut the GOP down like old growth timber.

What makes this time - only four years later - distinctive is that the Pelosi Politburo hasn't just worn out its welcome over time, become stale, complacent, and so forth.  It has gone out of its way to PROVE itself to be, yes, EXTREME.  And majorities across demographic categories have decided that whatever the GOP sins of the past, they're at the very least the lesser of two evils - and, to cite Ed's Canadian illustration, possibly an outright good.

So how will leftwingnuts react to being vomited out of the electorate's collective mouth like the vile, worm-ridden filth they really are?  C'mon, you can't have forgotten so easily:

Liberals were always arrogant, self-righteous, and corrupt.  After Al Gore's failed coup attempt following George W. Bush's 2000 election victory, they became deranged.  Bush's 2004 re-election only exacerbated their insanity.  And now, after having finally gotten some pay-back, after letting their arrogance convince them of the same fallacy they fell for in 1992 of American politics being "over" and a permanent "golden age of progressivism" having dawned, to have them and their party get blasted back into oblivion - perhaps for a lot longer than just a dozen years this time - and their "some kind of a god" get blasphemed (the "crucifixtion" will come in 2012)....well, suffice it to say I'm profoundly grateful that I'm not responsible for the upkeep of their collective mental health.  Though I do hope they have to tap O-Care to pay for it.  Maybe we should leave that lone plank in place while we're repealing and dismantling the rest of it.  Seems kinda fitting.

Or as outted JournoLister Dave Wiegel put it:

Do you remember how liberals spent roughly seven years of the Oughts making fun of stupid Republicans, before getting swept up in optimism about Barack Obama? That’s over now, so, back to making fun of the stupids.

And as we all know, "Stupid is as....stupid does".  Maybe that's why a growing number of Obaby-soxers swept into the hopenchange hype-nosis two years ago are waking up from the bender and reconsidering their options:

Yeah, I'd imagine being fed a bunch of spread-the-wealth/"Barack is going to buy me a car and pay off my mortgage!" bullshit that swindled you into voting for President 'prompter and his band of merry thieves followed by losing your job, your home, your car, your life savings, and being forced onto the welfare dole in his permanent recession would be enough to lead you to the conclusion that maybe - JUST MAYBE - 2008 was a terrible, TERRIBLE mistake.

About which some feel more.....strongly than others:

Hey, it's an NASCP guy, it's cool.

Y'see, this (Miss Jones, not "Reverend" Gatewood) is what makes 2010 potentially more ephocal than 1994 ever was.  The Gingrich Revolution was a backlash against the attempted hijacking of American health care against the backdrop of a genuine economic recovery (that started under Bush41, just so the record is kept straight).  2010 is the uprising against the successful hijacking of American health care - and a whole lot else - while the economy was left, federal boot planted firmly on its throat, to languish in the proverbial waste extractor.  The core image of the Democrat Party, carefully cultivated over the past eighty years, of "the compassionate party of the little guy" and his economic interests against "Big [Fill In The Blank]" has been "comprehensively" combusted.  This is a searing memory that definitely resides in the "generational" category and will not soon be expunged.

If the Republicans do not shrink from seizing this watershed opportunity to introduce conservativism, free market economics, and constitutional limited government to this new generation as Ronald Reagan did a generation ago, another, well, golden age will be at hand, awaiting only the exile of Barack Hoover Obama to Martha's Vineyard incarceration to fully flower.

But don't worry, libs.  We'll save plenty of tea for you.