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He's stupid, but he's not that stupid.

Not at all. Look at who would have to lose for the Democrats to hold the Senate. O'Donnell in Delaware, Angle in Nevada, Miller in Alaska. All Tea Party candidates. Obama knows he can buy off / intimidate the RINOs. He believes that the only thing stiffening their spine is the treat of being primaried out of existence. If the math from the election works out RINO = Victory, Tea Party = Defeat that threat will no longer exist. He will expect Collins, Snowe, McCain, Graham and probably Kirk from Illinois to be fighting to be the first to cross the isle and sell out our side.

In WWII when FDR died Hitler rejoiced thinking that the alliance would break up allowing him to win. Anyone with half a brain would have realized that an alliance so close to victory would never break up. But a Narcissist can convince himself of almost anything. Their absolute certainty in their own powers will allow a Narcissist to twist even the most tangential bit of good news into a plan for total victory. The reality of the plan is irrelevant. They will cling to any bit of hope in order to avoid facing reality, which is what the Narcissist fears most.

But a Narcissist can convince himself of almost anything. Their absolute certainty in their own powers will allow a Narcissist to twist even the most tangential bit of good news into a plan for total victory. The reality of the plan is irrelevant. They will cling to any bit of hope in order to avoid facing reality, which is what the Narcissist fears most.

I'm doing a project for a local physician whose sister-in law is a county commissioner and has similar obsessions with herself.

His recent description of her as a classic narcissist is pretty much spot-on with what you wrote. While she has the intelligence and capability to do the job quite well, every entity, board, panel or foundation she touches, is in short time, in absolute turmoil. But regardless of the havoc she wreaks, she then runs to the press with grade-school quality accusations about others while at the same time glorifying herself.