I'm getting tired of "we're gonna lose", "the Republicans are gonna get Congress back" and all that other crap. This is the Democratic Party, the party that holds the Presidency and both houses of Congress, not by paltry 1 vote majorities, but with real controlling power. It's August, and the election isn't until November! That's a lifetime in politics.
I was really dismayed to see some Ds like Harry Reid and even Howard Dean caving to the R mime on the Cordoba House. Why play into their hands? Moslem is the new N-word to the Rs. We're acting like a bunch of Sancho Panzas, except we're worse than Sancho Panza, even when Don Quixote lay dying, Sancho did not lose his courage.
"Ah!" said Sancho weeping, "don't die, master, but take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die without rhyme or reason, without anybody killing him, or any hands but melancholy's making an end of him. Come, don't be lazy, but get up from your bed and let us take to the fields in shepherd's trim as we agreed. Perhaps behind some bush we shall find the lady Dulcinea disenchanted, as fine as fine can be. If it be that you are dying of vexation at having been vanquished, lay the blame on me, and say you were overthrown because I had girthed Rocinante badly; besides you must have seen in your books of chivalry that it is a common thing for knights to upset one another, and for him who is conquered to-day to be conqueror tomorrow."
Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle -- are these fools threats to the party that lambasted them in 2006 and 2008, the party that beat them so bad they had to howl about repealing the 14th amendment because they're threatened by babies and whine about some religious center that nobody ever would have heard of otherwise?
Or, to paraphrase Senator Blutarksky:
What the fuck happened to the Democratic Party l used to know?
Where's the spirit?
Where's the guts?
This could be the greatest election of our lives... but you're gonna let it be the worst.