JAM,
In no way was I saying that the dems would become repubs. However, in a general election you need to get the base out. Obama won because of independents and the youth vote. He needs them to come out again in full force. Independents and the youth vote no longer believe in his message of hope and change.
Christine O'Donnell was always a joke. No political junkie ever took her as a serious threat. Heck, Coons must have had done cartwheels when she won, because he knew it was all over. I bet he already has already checked out on the time tables for Acela to DC.
To compare a Tea Partier to the mainstream Republican party is like comparing Ralph Nader to the Democratic party. It is not realistic.
All Christine O'Donnell did was to make the dems say "CRAP, the Americans are really mad at the 2 party system". It does not deflect the problem Obama is going to face come Jan., when all of the ads start airing....remember Michael Moore and Bush playing golf, or going to Crawford, now the opposition will air him playing golf 52 times or his flight to NYC for a broadway play or Chicago for Valentines day. That is how the system works. Of course they will sprinkle in the unemployment rate, the foreclosure issue (which now is even bigger because of the moratorium), the stock market, etc, etc, etc.
Meanwhile, the NEU will air how Christie got into a one on one with the NJ Teachers union, asking them to freeze their salary, but they refused. That is not a good ad, since most Americans believe unions are a problem in a fiscal downturn. They will see Christie as the guy who put his political career at stake for the citizens regardless of how it would hurt him politically because of the power of the union. He stood up for what he promised to them. NJ is a dem state.
OBTW not saying Christie will run, just saying how an independent voter who sees a candidate take on a union as big as the NEA because a budget issue, compared to a President who keeps expanding the deficit because they refuse to take on the elephant in the room. Rubio is the same.
Obama with this game of appealing DADT is not standing up. To this day the man who voted against the surge has yet to say it worked, but he is following Bush by doing a surge in Afghanistan. Where's the hope and change? Bush and Obama seem to be on the same page for the military...how will he explain to America he is not Bush? He's also an arse if he thinks that the military will go from 70% republican to democrat. He didn't win the military vote, he won't win the military vote, they are a small segment, so if he really believes in repealing DADT...MAN UP...all he needs to do is issue an EO. This could end today. You can't play both sides of the fence. He must choose, and it appears, he chose the military's side. Again MAN UP. and say that after coming into office he has realized it is a complex issue, mainly based on the unique benefits that military members receive. Instead, he plays the game of politics. He can't say that because than it opens a bigger can of worms...civil unions. Obama is a politician, IMHO, end of subject, period, dot. He is not a saint. Log Cabin, because they are Republican Homosexuals showed to the country he is a politician and now he must face the fact that he can't play everybody every day.
Obama, has a political problem. Honestly, I think it was foolish to appeal it without saying publicly in a very loud voice, I have directed the AG to appeal it because I respect the DOD and the survey would not be completed before the injunction drop dead date. The majority of Americans can get behind that. Instead they don't say that, and the majority of Americans are uninformed regarding the survey, so they think he is backing out of a promise.
It's all POLITICS, and his people screwed up because the message of why he is appealing is lost. How's that for leadership? Like I said before I am voting straight line dem for the first time in 26 yrs. I think our President asked for this support and I am willing to give it to him, what's the worst that could happen since we are already in the crapper in every aspect!