Via McMegan, a hilarious take on the campaign from NJ's Jonathan Rauch. It's a Q and A with himself, and it ends like this:
Why be so jaded about prospects for change? You're assuming business as usual. Obama might change business as usual. That's the point. If the Democrats win large enough majorities, it's a whole new ball game in Washington.
You know, sometimes I wonder if that isn't many Obama supporters' real hope: Use post-partisan rhetoric to win a big partisan majority and then roll over the Republicans. It's the Democratic version of what Reagan did and Bush tried to do. It might work, but a new kind of politics it isn't.
If that answer isn't a perfect definition of a realignment, what is? Change the narrative and you change everything. Rather than fight your opponents inch by inch, you take the first ten miles before the battle has really even begun.
C'mon Jonathan.... it's just fine over here in Obama-land. We're not crazies. At least some of us over here know what we're doing. We aren't giving up the fight. We're just fighting much, much smarter than we have been in a very, very long time.
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