Red meat

I completely agree with Digby on the nature of this tweet--it's heinous, that the Heritage foundation would find its author worthy of an award is inhumane...and I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that it did more to fire up the republican base than a thousand pieces by Digby whining about it does to fire up ours.

David Atkins makes a nice point--in a much nicer way than I do--that we are not normal, and that most voters do not share our passion or knowledge.  He also notes that we need to trust the polls--I learned my lesson in 2010, when several of the sites I frequent were trying to make the case that the elections might not be as bad as the polls showed.  They weren't--they were a lot fucking worse.  And that's why a few days out I boldly stated that Walker was going to win easily--the polls were not in our favor and they weren't going to be.  And like Atkins notes, we may have wasted a lot of time and effort on a lost cause.

I'm not picking on Digby--I admire her greatly and am thrilled that she's on our side.  But she's not alone in this wing, or subsect, of Liberals who think we're going to point out how odious republicans are and it's going to win us support.  George W. Bush was a horrendous human being, but the only reason Barack Obama won in 2008 was because the economy collapsed before our very eyes (we tend to forget that when Lehmann Brothers collapsed, McCain was ahead in the polls) and McCain reacted like a scared school girl.

Example:  "Romney's time at Bain shows that he'd cut his wife's heart out with a scissors to make a buck."  Truth be told, it has no more truth to it than the numbnuts above tweet about Sandra Fluke.  But it's an image that will remain, rightly or wrongly, in voters minds.

Republicans accepted long ago that like Vince Lombardi said, "Winning isn't everything.  It's the only thing."  We'd be wise to follow suit--righteous indignation won't put food on the table.

Peace,
emaycee