You just go ahead and move the goal posts all the way out, Dave.

Mew

While I would hope that my country has not yet sunk so low, I would not discount the possibility of widespread and severe voter fraud next month. It’ a bit early to be so complacent.

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

To be clear, I disagree with both you and Plouffe. Obviously he has moved the goalposts ridiculously far. I disagree with you, though, that victory is measured by an ability to “break their hearts and make them run.” The truth is that we’ve lost even when we had done that. Look no further than the health care debate, which we had won. It was over. We did our celebration. On the ensuing kickoff, the band was on the field. The band was on the field!

There is a quantifiable definition of victory in this election. We can claim victory if we achieve all three. They can claim victory if we achieve only one or neither. It’s a sister kisser if we achieve two.

1. We win the House. Doing this means that we can stop Obama’s drunken sailor spending, even if it means shutting down the federal government. (I say “even”, I’d love to see it happen for a while. It seems to be the only way the government can be fiscally responsible.)
2. We win enough seats in the Senate to be able to maintain a filibuster and to influence the President’s selection of SCOTUS nominees.
3. We win enough gubernatorial mansions and state legislatures to give ourselves a decided advantage in the redistricting process.

I’m sorry they are so alike I get them confused, Obama and Deval Patrick, our Gov. Is Plouffe the campaign mgr they share or is it Axelrod?

There are lots of dirty things going on in MA governors race here. I know you had link to Tiernery’s wife’s crimes here Wed, that is mild in comparison to what has been going on in governors race since Oct 1. Each day it gets worse, I think it is Patrick using the dem that switched to (I) last year to run for Gov, Tim Cahill.

He’s embarassing himself and the rest of his crew, now he is suing his some of his former campaign managers. Last Friday Cahill’s Lt Gov running mate quit an endorsed the (R) Baker. It has gotten worse every day this week.

The whole thing almost, but not quite, makes Patrick look good. He ‘s no good, he wants a VAT here too. Patrick hinted at it, but we know what he means.

What underlies Plouffe getting a step ladder to raise the bar for the GOP is this statment, “When you’ve got winds this strong in your favor…”
Translation: the Obama administration has been a complete failure.

As in Iwo Jima, February 25 to March 39,1945. Or, for that matter, in places like Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Pelieliu, Okinawa, the Phillipines, The Phillipine Sea, Leyte Gulf.
Remember, we’re dealing with a president who promises Conservatives, “Fighting, hand to hand.”

This is nothing but childish rhetoric that cannot possibly help the democrats, except to offer some salve to their post election wounds. Of course we knew something like this would be said to help manage expectations. But this is so tranparently ridiculous that even independents and moderates will see this as bluster.

To me, this just encourages a more intense GOTV effort on the part of conservatives to try and still make this incredibly lofty goal and spite the dems. And can this be a real encouragement for democrats by basically acknowledging the upcoming electoral slaughter in November?

indeed, This is a strategist? Didn’t the ass use the word disaster?
If so can you imagine post-election interviews when the ass tries to maintain that childishly ludicrous position. Where is his portable teleprompter?
They’re getting dumber by the hour

how far our society has come that a flamboyant gehe man like Plouffe can be taken seriously.