He doesn't quite rise to the level of William Kristol as far as "Of COURSE I'm right, I'm a conservative pundit" but Chuck Krauthammer, for years now, has been doling out political wizardry that is not his opinion of course, but absolute fact.
Today's Washington Post column finds him theorizingthat the gubernatorial wins in all of two states means that Obama is a one hit wonder:
But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.
The '08 election was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. And still he won by only seven points.
November '08 was one shot, one time, never to be replicated. Nor was November '09 a realignment. It was a return to the norm -- and definitive confirmation that 2008 was one of the great flukes in American political history.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Moreover, the same conventional wisdom that proclaimed the dawning of a new age last November dismissed the inevitable popular reaction to Obama's hubristic expansion of government, taxation, spending and debt -- the tea party demonstrators, the town hall protesters -- as a raging rabble of resentful reactionaries, AstroTurf-phony and Fox News-deranged.
Some rump. Just last month Gallup found that conservatives outnumber liberals by 2 to 1 (40 percent to 20 percent) and even outnumber moderates (at 36 percent). So on Tuesday, the "rump" rebelled. It's the natural reaction of a center-right country to a governing party seeking to rush through a left-wing agenda using temporary majorities created by the one-shot election of 2008. The misreading of that election -- and of the mandate it allegedly bestowed -- is the fundamental cause of the Democratic debacle of 2009.
Ya'll hear that.?
Krauthammer the great proclaims this The Democratic DEBACLE of 2009.
Alas I fear he is correct. For Democrats, Tuesday was officially The Beginning of the End.
Apocalypse. Armageddon. D-Day.
Helter Skelter.
We Is Doomed
GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!!
Thinking back to last year, I now see it so much more clearly! What WERE we thinking?
Obama won only because the GOP incumbent and prospective candidates were Dumb and Dumberer (and Dumberette). We wouldn't have had a chance against a stronger GOP ticket.
Obama only beat McCain by 7%. That's it. Embedded in that 7% is a mere 192 more electoral votes and a piddling 10 million more voters than McCain/Palin. Those are OKAY numbers, but certainly nothing to compare to the Republican Landslide of 2004, when Bush crushed Kerry by 2% and 3 million popular votes.
Krauthammer demonstrates his analytical wizardry by showing that one of the biggest keys to victory was that Dems stayed home in droves. Shockers. I never would have guessed that. Who'da thunk that sitting on your hands at home simply because you don't like your party's candidate could result in said candidate losing?
(Well, except in New York's 23rd District where Democrats and Independents voted for the Democrat thanks to the wingnut Victory by Attrition strategery. Krauthammer's op-ed doesn't include a mention of that, but I'm sure that's due to some judicious editing by the sneaky liberal editors at the Washington Post. I'm sure he had a great explanation as to why that happened. )
Krauthammer quite obviously has our number. He knows we're a bunch of fair weather voters. We're not going to make a habit out of this..this voting thing. The GOP will rise again and take over the House in a grand repeat of 1994. Peep his words again: "Nor was November '09 a realignment. It was a return to the norm..." You see, the GOP being in power is the way things should be. (Of course, now that I think about it, since Democrats were the House majority for 40 years,doesn't that means that that is the norm?? But I digress...)
Goodbye Chuck Schumer. Goodbye John Kerry. Goodbye Barbara Boxer. Goodbye Jon Tester. Nice knowing you, Harry Reid. Russ Feingold, the pleasure was all mine. Mr. President? Peace Out. Here we all were thinking you were Mike Tyson, and it turns out you're just Buster Douglas. 2010 and 2012 will see a culling of the Democrats in office. The Republicans will resume their rightful place as American's Leaders and there's nothing we can do to stop it. (Except for voting. Which we're not going to do again. Cuz it was just a fad.)
The Republicans are going to sweep, because next time, the GOP will nominate true conservatives. Conservatives who hew to the bedrock conservatism of Ronald Reagan. (Did you know he won 49 states in 1984?? That's right, and of course, not much has changed in the U.S. in the last 25 years, so of course, victory is inevitable.
The Republicans are going to sweep, because their base has the passion! OK, the base lacks African-americans, Latinos, Gays, People who live in the Northeast, People who live on the West Coast, People born after 1985, and people with functioning cerebral cortices, but Passion >>>> Numbers of Actual voters. Hell, math is just another liberal propaganda tool anyway. Ann Coulter says so.
The Republicans are going to sweep again because, simply put, deep down, America Loves Conservatives. Why, look at the book charts! Glenn Beck is a best-selling author, and so is Sarah Palin! And writing a best-selling book is just like governing!
So, to everyone at Kos, it's been great knowing you, but the party is over. Literally.
Thanks for reading. If anyone wishes to respond to this diary, please excuse me if I don't get back to you right away. I have a fetal position to assume.