Can you say "peaked too soon"?

by: Blue Girl

Wed Sep 29, 2010 at 15:20:25 PM CDT

That paradigm ceased to be operative on January 20, 2009 at about 12:30 in the afternoon, my time.  

My, my, my how times have changed.

Now you havea man running for Governor in the state of Maine blustering to supporters "As your governor, you're going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying 'Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.'"  And the crowd applauded loudly.

But they may not have been the only ones who heard his rhetoric. Two weeks ago, he had a 13-point lead, but it has vanished and the Democrat has pulled into the lead and the race is now rated "leans Democratic" by national polls.

I am not in the majority here by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think that November is going to be the bloodbath that the Villager Idiots have decided they want it to be.

The alternative is still the fucking repugnant-ones. Young people - the generational peers of my children - don't like homophobes or racists, and they see the republicans for the homophobic, racist fuckwits they are.

People my age remember the endless witch-hunts and investigations and the criminalization of politics as the repugnant-ones earned that title investigating the Clintons' fucking Christmas card list.

And nobody is polling us.

But I talk to people every single day. I talked to a window washer on the bus yesterday. He is sick to death of republican obstruction and will damned sure vote. No one has polled him. Today I called T-Mobile to pay the cell phone bill and chatted up the customer service rep who took my payment. She is sick to death of republican obstructionism and equated the mess that President Obama inherited to a trashed house after a teenage party. This mess ain't gonna be cleaned up before Mom and Dad get home, because this time there is structural damage. No one has polled her, either. I got the same response from the girl at the pharmacy and the appointment scheduler when I called to make an appointment to see my physician.

Maybe I'm quixotic, but I think the repugnant-ones have overreached and peaked too soon, and that while they will gain seats like out-of-power parties always do in midterm elections, but that the gains are not going to be sufficient to take control of either house. In fact, I think it is possible that the Democrats will fare better than the Villagers have decided they ought and a whole bunch of them are going to have faces dripping with egg the first Wednesday morning in November.

Call my belief an act of faith...I am not religious. I don't believe in god. I am a Secular Humanist. My faith is the most tested of them all. I believe in human beings and my fellow man, and I don't think that my fellow Americans are as stupid as the republicans are convinced they are.