“The Dems will never put up another candidate against Obama based on the idea that it would be seen as admitting that Obama was a mistake.”
If these green jobs, and the half-billions they ate up, keep disappearing, and if unemployment is above 9% in December, he’s gone. The polls will continue to drop, and they are going to plunge again when he opens his yap again to reveal he doesn’t have a plan for jobs. He asked for another week on the deadline on his term paper, and he’ll still fail it, because this isn’t Harvard and nobody is going to give him a pass because he’s black when they are on food stamps, yet bailing out banks, car companies, and hedge funds.
That he was a failure will be more than a forgone conclusion and will be deemed ‘stipulated’. Democrats will shift the focus to ‘How do we work together to fix things?’ and the whole matter, when brought up by Republicans, will be looked at as ‘detrimental to the process’ or ‘counterproductive’.
You don’t have to tell people America is failing. Many are neck-deep in the failure, a majority voted Democrat. People are going to be looking for a credible plan. Clinton, and that speech of his to those workers in New England somewhere, where he straight-up told them, “They aren’t coming back, but here’s what we are going to do . . .” People will glom onto the first believable thing that emerges from the cacophony.
The biggest losers if Obama doesn’t run will be the Press, and don’t think for a minute the Democrats won’t throw those guys under the bus. The Press has NOWHERE TO GO, and it was their job to vet Baraq, not the party’s.
“You dug it up, why’d you spike it?”
I can see the quote on Politico right now, and they are the future. Howard Dean will utter it, or better still, Hillary will pop up and say, “I knew it, gave what I had to NBC, and they spiked it. Here’s what I gave them. You can take that with you if you’d like. I knew the man wasn’t ready and said so last time I ran for President. Was I wrong?”
Now she’s an independent.
Carville’s not a stupid man. What happened to him and his team in 2008 is never going to happen to him again. School is nearly out for him, clearly. He’s back to work.