Worth noting in this duo of Weekly Standard Covers — apparently the GOP is Sarah Palin, flanked by the modern day incarnations of Andrew Jackson and William Jennings Bryan, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.  Populists them all.

tap tap tap.

I’ll give this one up: I already stated that I don’t think Jon Corzine’s defeat adds up to much in the “Donkey versus Elephant Game” – though it’s good to be rid of that one, perhaps, and the air of Plutocracy ala Goldman Sacchs.  (In regards to plutocrats and one item I saw last week being batted about, slightly contrarian-wise:  I’d like to hope that “millionaires” would be over-represented in the Congress — you’d hope it would be made up of, you know, successful people.  I suppose we’d hope for a few more people from poorer background “made good”, but beware of that too: Tom Delay fits that category.)

You know his victory in 2005?  It came pretty much because of George Bush.  No longer was he able to tug behind a nationalized message of anti-Bush sentiment, he was exposed and defeated.   So maybe there is something to be said about Corzine’s defeat after all in the D versus R game that even skeptical I can throw to the Republicans as meaning a good sign for 2010: there are Democrats up for re-election who fit Corzine’s profile in swatches and switches.  The problem might be that the strange desire to stick in people fitting Doug Hoffman’s profile — though even that might be massaged: a tact of awareness of the locality as against the chief movement conservative causes should float in percentage margins, right?

This entry was posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.