November 4th is going to be a beautiful day. The Republicans lost big in 2006. They lost 30 seats in the House, 6 seats in the Senate, and 6 governorships. For the first time in US history no Republican captured any House, Senate or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat. And everyone at the time figured this was the peak, and the goal was just to keep those seats in 2008. Yet this year the wave is continuing, possibly even picking up speed. The Republicans have lowered the bar to the point where they are hoping they don't lose 8 seats, thus giving the Democrats a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate (so they can no longer grind everything to a halt by record-breaking use of filibusters). In this election the Republicans are defending 23 Senate seats, the Democrats are only defending 12, and pretty much all of those are safe, which is more than can be said for the Republican side. Republicans could also potentially lose 30 or more house seats this time around as well.
Karen Hanretty, communications director for the NRCC, was blunt about their upcoming asskicking:
This is a challenging environment. Any Republican running for office has to run basically on an independent platform, localize the race and not take anything for granted. There are no safe Republican seats in this election.
Basically, if you want to save your skin as a Republican, you have to pretend you aren't a Republican. That's how tarnished the reputation of the Republicans is now, after 8 years of miserable failures, basically screwing up everything nationally and globally that they could get their hands on. The only thing that has gotten "better" in the last 8 years is corporate profit and the bank accounts of the rich. I honestly can't think of a single other thing that has improved, and I wouldn't called making the rich richer an improvement.
Yes, fired up! Ready to go!
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