Gumby's Slide into Oblivion

LogisticsMonster ^ | 9-14-08 | Puma

[mgist]

PUMA Politics: Gumby’s Slide Into Oblivion

Lo and Behold, It seems that the Democratic Party Leadership is realizing just how arrogant and juvenile Gumby is and are echoing what PUMAs were trying to tell the superdelegates before the convention. Barack Obama is in denial and is going to lose this election in November.

It is not at all amazing to me that I read this article in the Telegraph UK, and it is not amazing to me that the Dems are having canaries about Bambi’s campaign style. What is amazing is that so many PUMAs and Just Say No Deal Coalitioners could have been so incredibly right about the junior senator from Illinois and the DNC leadership could still try to force this fool on the American public and actually think he could win the White House.

Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain.

The Democratic presidential candidate’s slump in the polls has sparked pointed private criticism that he is squandering a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House.

I take issue with that; I think the Dem Party under the leadership of Dean, Pelosi, Reid and Brazile squandered a once-in-a-generation chance to win back the White House when they kicked Hillary Clinton to the curb and installed this spineless, arrogant, Chicago Style Politics as usual, empty chair. Hillary would have had a ferocious battle to win the White House. It would not have been a cake walk, but she would have won. Now we are watching the gradual slide into oblivion for the Democratic Party’s selected candidate.

Party elders also believe the Obama camp is in denial about warnings from Democratic pollsters that his true standing is four to six points lower than that in published polls because of hidden racism from voters - something that would put him a long way behind Mr McCain.

What have I and other PUMAs been saying? That Bambi polls below his reported numbers? I hate having to wait for some newspaper to print what astute PUMAs have been saying for most of the year.

A senior Democratic strategist, who has played a prominent role in two presidential campaigns, told The Sunday Telegraph: “These guys are on the verge of blowing the greatest gimme in the history of American politics. They’re the most arrogant bunch Ive ever seen. They won’t accept that they are losing and they won’t listen.”

Arrogant…….hmmm….sounds pretty juvenile to me.

Others concede that his trip to Europe was a distraction that enhanced his celebrity status rather than his electability on Main Street, USA.

Imagine that…..rock concerts and beer fests for 200,000 Germans instead of campaigning in America.

Mr Obama has never won an electoral contest against a strong Republican candidate. David Axelrod, his chief strategist has been hailed as a political genius for beating the Clinton machine, but Democrats now point out that he has never run a successful campaign in the heartland states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia, which will decide the election. His expertise is in mobilising young, educated and black voters in urban areas.

Oh please, let’s be serious. Bambi’s standard operating procedure during elections is to have his opponents knocked off the ballot so that he ends up running unopposed. He single handedly defeated the Clinton Machine so never winning an electoral contest against a strong Republican candidate should not be that big a deal, right? Oh, sorry, going to be really hard to get the completely vetted, prisoner of war, country first, John McCain off the ballot, so let’s try to get Sarah Palin knocked off the ticket for being a bad mom, a religious kook and a small town mayor with no real experience. Maybe that will work.

Also, David Axelrod as a “political genius” for beating the Clinton machine is completely laughable. The reason Hillary was “beaten” was due to caucus fraud, superdelegate payoffs, disenfranchisement of two huge states that would have put Hillary ahead in the delegate count, and the sham roll call vote in Denver. Let’s be honest, I think all of that really probably belongs to the “political genius” of Donna Brazile and her email buddy, Karl Rove.

Party elders are also studying internal polling material which warns the Obama camp that his true standing is worse than it appears in polls because voters lie to polling companies about their reluctance to vote for a black candidate. The phenomenon is known in the US as the Bradley effect, after Tom Bradley, a black candidate for governor of California who lost after leading comfortably in polls.

The strategist said: “I’ve seen memos where they’ve been told to factor in four to six points for the Bradley effect, but they’re in denial about it.

I know I remember writing that down a couple of times…….

The one thing everyone agrees the Obama camp have woken up to is the toxic effect on their chances of Mrs Palin’s arrival on the national scene. Polls show that white women voters, attracted to her down home virtues, now support Mr McCain by a margin of 12 points, the same lead among white women that George W. Bush enjoyed over John Kerry in 2004. Until recently, Mr Obama led among that group of voters by six points.

So we are talking about an 18 point slide away from “The One” by white women. Isn’t that a significant part of Hillary Clinton’s true democratic base? The old, fat, menopausal white women? The base that they did not need anymore because the Democratic Party is “urban” now.

The Republican strategist Dan Schnur said that the effect was to repel blue collar, family-oriented voters. “They didn’t like Obama in the primaries and voted for Hillary. And they still don’t like him now so they’re voting for Palin.

“Obama can still win these voters over, but his difficulty in establishing an emotional connection with them is probably his greatest challenge between now and election day.”

Dream on….once again underestimating your average, run of the mill, everyday PUMA, and underestimating the hubris of the candidate. He will not even be trying to establish a connection because he does not think he needs to. He does not need the democratic party base to win this election. Just ask Donna Brazile. Gumby was coddled by the DNC leadership during the primaries and now he has no clue how to do battle with the Republicans. He was given a pass by the DNC and the MSM, and Hillary’s hands were tied behind her back. Thanks Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Brazile and all you absolutely wonderful Superdelegates for creating this campaign that is going down in flames.

But it is a measure of his plight that the man who derailed the ambitions of Mrs Clinton, the most powerful woman in Democratic politics, now needs help from her husband to overcome the popularity of another alpha female who may be an even greater risk to his White House ambitions.

I get really tired of the MSM writing that Gumby derailed Hillary Clinton. It is implied that Bambi actually is somehow, some way, some kind of superhero by “defeating” Hillary Clinton all by his lonesome. We know the truth; the superdelegates carried this empty chair across the finish line and the DNC leadership made sure it stuck.

I once wrote that Gumby should never gotten down off the porch to play with the big dogs, and now America and the Democratic Party are seeing why.

[mgist]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. This was published over a month ago and in terms of political timing it is almost prophetic.

[ari-freedom]

[mgist]

"We know the truth; the superdelegates carried this empty chair across the finish line and the DNC leadership made sure it stuck."

Move over Peggy Noonan, there's a new girl in town. Man, I love this lady!

[Past Your Eyes]

I wish I could be as certain.

[Salamander]

I really wish there were something nice we could do for all the PUMAs.

They deserve it.

[ari-freedom]

what we want for all americans: a better future for them and their children

[mgist]

I hear you friend. I have to share that I having been praying and praying hard. I finally asked that God's will be done enough if it does mean "punishment". I felt a sense of peace and a sort of understanding that although there is a lot of evil out there, there are also many people praying and He is still in charge and will protect this nation.

Thank goodness for blogs because I would never comment like this with complete stangers. Please pray.

[gotribe]

How about elect McCain and Palin?

[Darkwolf377]

Lo and Behold, It seems that the Democratic Party Leadership is realizing just how arrogant and juvenile Gumby is and are echoing what PUMAs were trying to tell the superdelegates before the convention. Barack Obama is in denial and is going to lose this election in November.

I'm enjoying reading this, but I have to ask where she's getting this from. When I see Obama setting up for his big party, and the polls at realclear showing "Obama" all the way down the right side of the screen...

I'm not so certain that Obama's going to win than I was a couple of weeks ago, but I have to ask where this stuff comes from, and what the writer thinks today. Because the dems seem to be crowing about inevitable victory.

[Darkwolf377]

installed this spineless, arrogant

A great description of Obama--he is arrogant about his own lack of accomplishment or qualifications.

It's like being arrogant about being a void.

[finnsheep]

What nobody’s asking is why with his mega-millions can’t he close the deal?

[Darkwolf377]

What nobody’s asking is why with his mega-millions can’t he close the deal?

The libs I ask that to just laugh, and continue staring into space with their vacant eyes. They seem more interested in partying on election night than actually winning first, which could be their undoing.

[Redleg Duke]

"Thank goodness for blogs because I would never comment like this with complete stangers. Please pray."

This morning I prayed for my son and for my country, that this cup might pass, that we might be saved from the horrors of socialism and communism as now embodied in the Democrat Party and Obama.

That so many Americans even consider voting for this juvenile empty suit and his buffoon running mate is terrifying! How we have sunk as a nation and a society. From the savior of the world to a nation of baby-killers.

It is ironic that the epithet of the left during Viet Nam used to condemn our returning soldiers is in fact the accurate description of what the left has wrought on this fair nation!

[Eagle Forgotten]

I'm enjoying reading this, but I have to ask where she's getting this from. When I see Obama setting up for his big party, and the polls at realclear showing "Obama" all the way down the right side of the screen...

Good question. The date of the article linked in the OP is September 14. At that time, IIRC, the polls were mch more favorable to McCain than they are now.

Is there a way on RealClearPolitics to look at the Electoral College breakdown for a particular date in the past? I did find this page with some past national poll results, showing September 14 as McCain +2.1% with an electoral-vote lead of 227 to 207. The most recent summary there is October 19: Obama +5.0%, and leading by 286 to 155 electoral votes.

So the linked article is interesting but take it with a grain of salt.

[Past Your Eyes]

And I hear you, too. You have to come to a point that you have peace with whatever happens, knowing that God is ultimately in control and our eternal future is assured.

[Vaquero]

PUMA stands for Party Unity My @$$, right????

[Heartland Mom]

I LOVE the PUMAs! One quote that stood out from the source the author was comparing to was the weak assertion, "Party elders also believe the Obama camp is in denial about warnings from Democratic pollsters that his true standing is four to six points lower than that in published polls because of hidden racism from voters - something that would put him a long way behind Mr McCain."

Not only are they arrogant beyond belief, but they also fail to understand the people they are attempting to mislead into voting for Bambi. His race is NOT the factor. It is his politics and complete lack of accomplishments.

[sergeantdave]

“So the linked article is interesting but take it with a grain of salt.”

What you need to ask yourself is why you believe nothing the MSM says because the Marxists running the propaganda press are liars, but come election time you suddenly believe these same liars are now telling the truth with their bogus polls.

[ottbmare]

I have to share that I having been praying and praying hard. I finally asked that God's will be done enough if it does mean "punishment".

Thanks for sharing that. I've been praying hard too, like millions of other people. I've learned the hard way not to besiege God with prayers for what I want instead of asking that my will be aligned with His. It seems very possible that in light of the great sins this nation has committed in recent years (notably the murder of millions of babies and our total dedication to sexual depravity) that God might choose to chastise us and take us down from our position as "a city on a hill."

Or not. I don't know. Perhaps He can be moved to save this nation for the sake of a righteous remnant. He has extended unmerited mercy in the past; maybe He'll do it again.

[mkjessup]

almost prophetic.

Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.