"Every Once In A While, History Requires That The Monsters Win...."

....so that when their party is utterly defeated, future generations may count their blessings."

And make no mistake, Barney Frank, anti-American economic terrorist, is a monster, as multifacetedly loathesome as he is destructive:

Frank also goes too far in vehemently denying any connection to Fannie and Freddie’s failure, or to the risky mortgage lending that caused so much damage. He portrays himself now as a lifelong advocate for affordable rental housing only. To hear him tell it, it was never a part of his agenda to make it easier for low-income homebuyers to get mortgages. Indeed, he says, he always fought the idea.

As far back as 1991, the Globe reported that Frank lobbied Fannie Mae to ease its rules restricting mortgages on two- and three-family homes, even though the default rate on those mortgages was far higher than the rate for single-family dwellings. Was that being a “consistent critic’’ of low-income home ownership? How about when he gave a speech in 2005 praising the “advocacy groups that work with us so that we can make homeownership available to people who might not on their own in a market situation be able to afford it’’?

These, ladies and gentlemen, are the plain, simple facts.  Barney Frank and Chris Dodd conspired to sabotage and destroy the U.S. economy and manipulate the U.S. electorate with the subsequent financial panic into permanently empowering their left-wing extremist party to wrenchlingly transform America into a one-party Marxist state.  It is the truth, and both these men deserve to rot behind bars for the rest of their natural, misbegotten lives.

This, of course, is what Lollipop considers to be a "smear":

[Sean] Bielat has $364,000 in his campaign war chest to Frank’s $1 million, but the embattled congressman said he made the campaign loan to counter an expected flood of “attack ads.”

“I do not intend to be ambushed by the kind of right-wing smears that assailed John Kerry in 2004,” Frank said...

Frank — outraised by $70,000 by opponent Sean Bielat in September — pumped $200,000 from his personal retirement account into his campaign to thwart what he calls right-wing attacks from “bigoted” Tea Partiers.

Pot, kettle, black.

Regrettably, that cannot be followed up by "game, set, match":

“Barney Frank is holding a twelve-point lead, and in a tough election year for Democrats that’s a comfortable lead going into the final two weeks of the election,” Eyewitness News political analyst Joe Fleming said. “It all depends on if Sean Bielat can grab some momentum to close that gap.”…

Both men are doing well among members of their respective parties, with Frank backed by 80% of Democrats and Bielat by 92% of Republicans. “Barney’s got a real strong base there, and that’s really propelling him right now” in the heavily Democratic 4th, Fleming said.

Among independents, Bielat is beating Frank 44%-35%, with another 17% still undecided. But Bielat will need to win unaffiliated voters by a much bigger margin in order to defeat Frank, Fleming said…

WPRI has offered to host a prime-time debate between Frank and Bielat focused on issues of concern to voters in Bristol County, Mass. Both campaigns originally agreed in principle to participate, but Frank’s campaign later changed its mind, citing scheduling issues.

I read that, in light of the five debates they've had already, that Team Dude believes that Bielat has, indeed, reached his apex, and accordingly that the Human Slurpee is out of danger and can go back to ignoring him like the Nazi flotsam they consider him to be.

Mickle though it fashes me to say it, that polling needle hasn't budged since the previous one showing the exact same margin that sparked all this rightospheric excitement in the first place.  So, exit question: Is the dream dead?  Or did it ever really exist in the first place?