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Democrats Playing “Catch It And You Keep It”

In watching both the buildup to last night’s acceptance speech by the President, and the speech itself, I’m reminded of the 1972 classic bit from National Lampoon’s Radio Dinner… “Catch it and You Keep It”.  I’ll let you listen,  and then explain.


The situation the Democrats now find themselves in is strikingly similar to the contestants in that skit. Consider their lack of response to the question: “Are you better off now than four years ago? “. They could see the question coming, but like the contestants, get totally crushed when trying to field it.

[1]Democrats know there’s no way to dodge the fact that exactly NONE of the promises made in the ’08 election cycle ended up being true. On employment for example, they know that despite tinkering with the employment numbers, Obamanomics has been an unmitigated disaster. The U6 right now is upwards of 20%… and the U3 would be at around 11%, if the workforce hadn’t been shrinking for three years… people having given up looking for work in the mess that is the Obama economy. They know Americans are hurting and they know that Americans know it’s because of the Democrat party and it’s policies. They know very well that when you make enemies of the rich and successful, that nobody should be shocked when the economy tanks.

They know they’re not popular with the American voters, or even with their own party, as we discussed yesterday [2] and so, last night, Obama was forced to essentially phone in his speech. No promises, no specifics, just knee deep rhetoric. Last night’s speech seemed to me to be about reinforcement of the base, because of the points discussed yesterday, and giving all else up as a lost cause.

You can understand why. John Kerry, of all people, talking about what makes a good leader. The fact that Kerry is not wrapping up his second presidential term right now, is proof enough he hasn’t a clue about leadership. And, any party wishing to keep up a “War on Women” meme, offering up Bubba Clinton as a keynote speaker, had best keep a fair amount of ice handy.

And so it goes. The lamesttream media keeps trying to portray this as a close election. The only question left is when they’re going to start adjusting themselves back to reality, as they’ve done so often before.