A Legacy They Can't Escape

Megalomania has many forms, ladies and gentlemen, but even I couldn't have conceived of it moving so far from the sublime and so deep into the ridiculous:

Democratic insiders are taking the temperature of some top party donors about the possibility of naming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading into President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, senior officials tell POLITICO.

Under the scenario being tested, Tim Kaine, the current DNC chairman and former governor of Virginia, would be named to a top administration post, perhaps in the Cabinet, the officials said.

Donors’ response has been positive, according to people who have been consulted.

Kaine being kicked somewhere else I can understand; the looming November apocalypse is hardly his fault, but one of the functions of any party chairman is as designated scapegoat when the party's fortunes take a turn for the worse.  And especially a party led by as venal and grotesquely dishonorable a worm as Barack Obama, who is congenitally incapable of taking responsibility for anything.

But...."Beltway Bob"?  Sure, the role of DNC chair in the Age of Obamatopia is pure figureheadedness, but...."Beltway Bob"?  A department store mannequin would do a better job, even of taking up space.  Plus it wouldn't open its mouth and say stupid crap on a daily basis, which would no longer be part of Gibbsy's job description.

Remember also that I said "one of" the functions of DNC chair is designated scapegoat; another prominent function is fundraising, which Gibbs has never done.  Nor has he any electoral experience, or managerial experience, or really ANY experience relevant to running the DNC.  Other than saying stupid crap on a daily basis, I suppose.

I could make the obligatory crack about Gibbs' noviceness being his chief qualification in the eyes of the Novice-In-Chief.  I would, except that appears to be, amazingly, more than just an unoriginal punchline:

The logic for a Chairman Gibbs, according to one official: It would “put the Obama imprimatur on the DNC, once and for all,” and install a “great partisan fighter” as the face of the national party for the reelection campaign. “It’s a brilliant idea if he ends up deciding he wants to do it,” said one official who has been consulted...

Words fail me.  If I were that "official," I would take that suggestion like a diagnosis of advanced terminal liver cancer.  After I came to, I would beg grovelingly for a second opinion.  I would hope I was going deaf and heard wrong, and if I hadn't, I'd jam icepicks through my eardrums.  After Jimmy Carter, the voters didn't trust Democrats with the presidency for a dozen years, and Congress for the dozen years after that.  A quarter century partially or entirely in the political wilderness.  They finally hornswaggle their way back to power and the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis has arrogated, spent, taxed, regulated, and nationalized it away again in less than two years.  And it doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Red Barry, unlike Sick Willie, is highly unlikely to change course in either policy or propaganda terms even after the biggest electoral shellacking in at least sixteen years.  Dick Morris sees him as a hybrid of Herbert Hoover and George McGovern, which would mean literally decades out of power.  For the Democrat Party to survive, even the memory of Barack Obama must be purged, expunged, and fumigated out of its every corner, nook, crany, floor joist, crawlspace of every wing, adjuct, and organization.

And their "some kind of a god" wants "Battling Bob" Gibbs to tattoo his big, grinning rictus and logo feces right across its face.  For-EVAH.

Parting thought: Did The One have Rahmbo in mind for this move and he got wind of it and bolted for pre-emptively bolted for home?