re: #21 EiMitch

For all of the democrats fronting about looking out for us, they’re just as beholden to special interests as republicans. I linked to Holder as an example. He refused to prosecute a single person who crashed the economy, nor any exec in subsequent financial scandals.

The point is that plenty of democrat supporters feel betrayed, not just disappointed.

Emphasis added to your biggest assumption. Yes, the republican’s strategy is unsustainable. But its not going to fail them this soon. Not even close.

Not to mention, how exactly will a changing of the guard in the democrats stop the republicans from imploding if such an implosion is as imminent as you believe?

Throwing seats to the republicans? Like the old guard just did anyway? And in 2010? And they didn’t exactly regain lost ground in 2012.

The tea party’s takeover of the republican party in 2010 didn’t throw seats to the democrats. The teabaggers took control. And they’ve only gotten stronger since. On what grounds do you base your belief that opposite results will happen to democrats if they get a surge of fresh blood?

Your argument is based on alot of assumptions, chief among them being that the teabaggers are on their last legs. No they aren’t. Not yet. I’d like to believe otherwise, but thats not what the evidence is saying. And when it does happen much later, (assuming republicans don’t change their strategy in time) a boat rocking amongst democrats won’t save republicans from self-inflicted wounds.

Thank you for the clarification. This is more a personal thing than one that I can directly address since for the moment I am lucky enough (White upper middle class Liberal Privilege) that I only feel upset by the Democrats failings rather than feeling wounded by them. If others feel actively wounded… yes I can understand why but I can’t speak for them only for myself.

Also you are wrong about one thing, there have been plenty of examples where ever if the Tea Party has been moving with the wind at their back, their zealous over reach has caught them seats they might have won otherwise.

Remember “Chickens for Checkups” remember “I am not a witch”? The Tea party has lost the Republicans seats at times by running overly extreme candidates, and we democrats should not feel the need to repeat that particular blunder.

Also as for why I feel the GOP is on the cusp of exploding, let me explain.

John McCain and Mitt Romney were both Republicans from the Business Oriented oligarchy favoring wing of the faction. If the Republicans hold true to their pattern for running the guy who came in second in the primaries that means the guy who will be running for President in 2016 is Rick Santorum.

It could not be of course, but I will be surprised if the winner of the primary isn’t from the Theocracy faction this time around. I believe that this faction is going to much worse trying to run on its beliefs on a nation wide Presidential election and will lead to a loss that will be of equal levels to the one that they suffered in 2008.

These are just my beliefs and people need to show up to vote, a ground game needs to be in place, adds need to be run, so on and so forth, to make them happen, but I don’t see why the results of a midterm are proof that they can’t still happen. See my post above midterms are zebras presidential elections are horses, one does not predict the outcome of the other. So there you have it that is why I am upset by this outcome but I don’t despair in the same way the writer of this piece does.