Let me know if you see Joe the Plumber riding around in a tank.The president may not be in any position to rescue Democrats, but his absence from the campaign trail - particularly if he's playing golf and hobnobbing with rich donors instead - will be viewed (and advertised by Republicans) as an invitation to send him a message he doesn't want to hear.
On the other hand, the Republicans also have their problems. The middle may be up for grabs, but by whom? The devil you know or the one you don't? In tough times, do you go with someone who is unknown, inexperienced and maybe a little bit too far off the beaten track?
The best hope for Democrats from Joe Sestak to Harry Reid is not the president but their opponents. I don't think "tea partiers" are racist, but I'm not sure they're all qualified for the offices they seek. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but in tough times, even more so than in good times, it makes sense to have someone who knows what they're doing, whether you're hiring someone to fix the pipes or fix the country.
8.8.10
IT'S NOT ABOUT IDEOLOGY, IT'S ABOUT COMPETENCE. Susan Estrich, who managed Michael Dukakis's 1988 presidential campaign, pays Our President a backhanded compliment.
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"...it makes sense to have someone who knows what they're doing, whether you're hiring someone to fix the pipes or fix the country."
It seems to me that the very people Susan Estrich thinks what they are doing are the same ones who created the mess that we are in and continue to make it worse. I haven't figured out whether that is a feature or a bug of the donks.
Ms Estrich's team are far too confident of their ability to cope with the unanticipated and unintended consequences of their policy proposals. Whether or not they create the mess, their efforts to undo what they perceive as messes gang aft agley.
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