A few points ahead, democrats are playing defense. But in the game their playing winning requires a blowout, not a shot at the buzzer. For the past year, Democrats have occupied both the White House and Congress. Their stimulus bill was puny, far less than what was needed. The health care bill is withering on the vine. A jobs bill has turned into little more than trying to keep their own jobs.
You, I, and the others reading Daily Kos know Palin and the Republican message is BS. But as Rich notes:
Incredibly enough, this message is gaining traction. Though Obama remains more personally popular than the G.O.P., Republicans pulled ahead of the Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, among others, in a matchup for the 2010 midterms.
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That Republican leaders can pass off deceptive faux-populism as "pitch-perfect populism" is in part a testament to the blinding intensity of the economic anger and anxiety roiling the country. It also shows the power of an incessant bumper-sticker fiction to take root when ineffectually challenged — and, most crucially, the inability of Democrats to make a persuasive case that they offer anything better.
In addition to Palin, Rich goes on to list case after case of Republican hypocrisy - John Boehner, Richard Shelby, Susan Collins, Thad Cochran, Mark Stanford, and even their most recent heart throb, Scott Brown.
The sad thing is that Democrats are actually losing to that group of frauds and Sarah Palin who have nothing to offer the American public except divine intervention. Unfortunately, this is more than Democrats are offering as they ignore main street and the very real suffering the working class is experiencing.
As Rich sums up:
That the G.O.P. may actually be winning this argument is less an indictment of Palin than of Washington Democrats too busy reading the writing on her hand to see or respond to the ominous political writing on the wall.
Read the entire article here.