Posted on 05/14/2006 6:07:23 AM PDT by Pharmboy
WASHINGTON--DEMOCRATS are all but breaking out the Champagne. Republicans are divided and disheartened; President Bush's poll numbers seem to be in free fall. Many Democrats are talking not only about victory in November but about what they will do once Congress is in their hands.
Such talk may well be premature. Election Day is six months away, and the party has lost many a winning hand. But here is a slightly heretical question, being asked only partly in jest right now: Is it really in the best interest of the Democratic Party to win control of the House and Senate in November? Might the party's long-term fortunes actually be helped by falling short?
As strange as it might seem, there are moments when losing is winning in politics. Even as Democrats are doing everything they can to win, ...some of the party's leading figures are also speculating that November could represent one of those moments.
From this perspective, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world politically to watch the Republicans struggle through the last two years of the Bush presidency. There's the prospect of continued conflict in Iraq, high gas prices, corruption investigations, Republican infighting and a gridlocked Congress. Democrats would have a better chance of winning the presidency in 2008, by this reasoning, and for the future they enhance their stature at a time when Republicans are faltering.
Indeed, some Democrats worry that the worst-case scenario may be winning control of Congress by a slim margin, giving them responsibility without real authority. They might serve as a foil to Republicans and President Bush, who would be looking for someone to share the blame. Democrats need a net gain of 6 seats in the Senate, and 15 seats in the House.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NYT likes to coach the RATs when they think they are falling short.
Adam N. is the head coach.
Fortunately, the advice is always wrong.
"Why take the lead when you already have the leader right by the gonads."
Both great comments...I also thought that Nagourney might have hit upon a real fear of the dems--that a slim victory would give them "responsibility without real authority."
This a$$ is giddy over continued conflict in Iraq? As an American, I'd like to snap his neck with my bare hands!
Can you see the smile this reporter's face had while typing this? I can hear the glee from here.
Wohoo! More Iraq violence!
YES! Higher gas prices!
YEEAAAHH! Corruption investigations!
The NY Slimes. All the slant thats slant to slant.
uh.. the NY Times needed something to fill the page where the Escort Service Ads are?
(just a wild guess mind you)
:-)
They wilfully go against what decent, law abiding, Americans care about, and because they're such pompass asses they will stoop in their morale morass even deeper before they finally take heed of a clue!
Wohoo! More Iraq violence!
YES! Higher gas prices!
YEEAAAHH! Corruption investigations!...
Yea Higher Taxes!
WhoHoo! More Culture of Perversion!!
WooPee! Poop Powered Prius in Every Pot!!
HooHoo!! No More Borders!!
Bongo!! Bill and Hill King and Queen of the World!!
The left claims that they do NOT root against America. Ha.
Sounds like a strategy for losing.
The REAL reason for an article like this? "Yeah, we coulda won if we wanted to, but we didn't want to." Consolation if they manage to screw it up again.
.......a slightly heretical question
Who's the heretic? Is it Adam? Thought he was the play down the middle "journalist"!
sarc.........
Putting on turban and gazing into crystal ball:
Democrats will stay away from polls in large numbers.
Republicans will too but more Republicans will vote than 'Rats.
They know that they can't win and are setting up this fall back position, to say, "We didn't really want to win!"
"Such talk may well be premature. Election Day is six months away, and the party has lost many a winning hand. But here is a slightly heretical question, being asked only partly in jest right now: Is it really in the best interest of the Democratic Party to win control of the House and Senate in November? Might the party's long-term fortunes actually be helped by falling short?
"As strange as it might seem, there are moments when losing is winning in politics. Even as Democrats are doing everything they can to win, ...some of the party's leading figures are also speculating that November could represent one of those moments.
<0>"From this perspective, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world politically to watch the Republicans struggle through the last two years of the Bush presidency. There's the prospect of continued conflict in Iraq, high gas prices, corruption investigations, Republican infighting and a gridlocked Congress. Democrats would have a better chance of winning the presidency in 2008, by this reasoning, and for the future they enhance their stature at a time when Republicans are faltering.
They know that their polls are full of BS, and most of the American People are not buying their bs.
The Democrats winning here puts them in a similar situation as Hamas winning in Palestine. They were better off endlessly bitching about how things should be done. If they had to hold power and actually follow their own bad advice they would get 4 years in office. Assuming we still have a country by 2012.
I'm telling you, despite the lies they keep spreading about Bush's "poll numbers" or how the "Republicans are in trouble," they KNOW the real story. Yesterday, I posted a piece here on FR about supposedly "vulnerable" GOP House seats. Bottom line, the Dems cannot take control of the House, and more likely, the GOP will actually GAIN a seat or two!!!
Same in the Senate, I can't find one SURE GOP loser now---Santorum, down single digits, is the closest---and there are two Republican pickups as of this moment (NJ and MN). So that's a net INCREASE of one in the Senate---and Santorum won't lose, so we are really looking at two.
Pray that you're right! But, I believe you are...
So when the Democrats lose the Times can claim victory.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631282/posts
Hmmm... just WHAT will the NYT say if the dems actually LOSE seats this fall?
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