"I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat"
Will Rogers
I have always considered that quote to perfectly describe the Democratic Party. Disorganized, a loose collection of liberal interests. Occasionally winning despite ourselves.
Heck, watch us legislate, we don't need Republicans, we are our own opposition.
So this is a shock. Why is McCain running in PA right now? Isn't that so far gone to be a waste of money and time, both of which he has little remaining?
Erza Klein writes in the article: Is McCain Getting Played?
The Obama campaign is doing a major head fake in PA. They "accidentally" leaked an "internal" poll showing Obama up by only 2 percent in PA. I guarantee you that no such poll exists and that this was done both to motivate volunteers in the state (and maybe elsewhere) and prevent them from getting too complacent and also to sucker the McCain campaign into spending more time there. Ed Rendell has asked Obama to come back and campaign in the state-another major ruse. They know that McCain makes most of the decisions for his campaign and that they can goad him into spending more time in PA by pretending that it is close there. Let's see if Obama actually returns to PA before November 4th, but I sincerely doubt it. They are brilliant.
Oh. My. God. Can this even be possible?
I mean, we have been watching rope-a-dope politics all year from Obama on issues, but that's pretty minor. Did Obama just pull one off of this magnitude? This is no minor debate head-fake, parsing some issue.
If this is a correct assesment we are looking at Obama taking a damaged, desperate campaign, and tricking them into throwing time and money down the drain. Obama has been pushing McCain's buttons throughout this entire campaign, Is he completely dialed in now?
I want to see McCain cluck like a chicken. I want to see McCain shake is head and say, "These aren't the droids we are looking for."
We have already seen a better organized, better disiplined, better run campaign than any Democratic campaign that I can remember. But are we to the level of actually manipulating the Republicans the way they used to manupulate us?
Really?
That leaves me with one question.
Who are you, and what have you done with the Democrats?