The biggest surprise

[Johnny Coli]

We waited.

 

We watched Rove, Bush and Cheney strut around these past few weeks with a swagger that suggested that they knew something the pundits and pollsters didn't...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

We listened to Karl Rove on NPR tell the interviewer in his characteristic smugness that his math was the only math that mattered and he could say with confidence that the GOP would maintain control of both houses...even as we looked at poll after poll suggesting otherwise...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

We watched Bush confidently refuse to even speculate that the control of congress might switch hands, refusing to even plan for the worst...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

But there was no surprise coming. In the end there was no genius behind the curtain. In the end there was no surprise news story crushing the Dems chances of taking back the House (still waiting patiently for the Senate). In the end all the swagger, confidence and refusal to plan for defeat was all just whistling past the graveyard. In the end Rove, Bush and Cheney had nothing but their record, nothing but fear, and nothing but smear tactics that fell on deaf ears.

 

And that was the biggest surprise of all.

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I'm not surprised.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

We waited.

 

We watched Rove, Bush and Cheney strut around these past few weeks with a swagger that suggested that they knew something the pundits and pollsters didn't...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

We listened to Karl Rove on NPR tell the interviewer in his characteristic smugness that his math was the only math that mattered and he could say with confidence that the GOP would maintain control of both houses...even as we looked at poll after poll suggesting otherwise...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

We watched Bush confidently refuse to even speculate that the control of congress might switch hands, refusing to even plan for the worst...and we wondered.

 

And we waited for the surprise.

 

But there was no surprise coming.  In the end there was no genius behind the curtain.  In the end there was no surprise news story crushing the Dems chances of taking back the House (still waiting patiently for the Senate).  In the end all the swagger, confidence and refusal to plan for defeat was all just whistling past the graveyard.  In the end Rove, Bush and Cheney had nothing but their record, nothing but fear, and nothing but smear tactics that fell on deaf ears.

 

And that was the biggest surprise of all.

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Good for you. Now we can see how much of a failure the Democrats are as well. I'm fully prepared for that communist Nancy Pelosi to push for socialized medicine, tax increases, and retreat in Iraq.

 

God Bless America. I'm sure Babs and Alec are happy this morning, as happy as you must be. The good news is most of the Dims elected in the Northeast are moderate to conservative. So in two years, if Pelosi's tried to bring socialism to the USA, it's likely all the seats lost by Republicans will be regained.

[Johnny Coli]

Still no sign of the evil genius, yet.

 

On almost every leg of every trip, Mr. Rove appeared before the traveling group of journalists to alternately tease them or flatter them, all the while spinning scenarios pointing to yet another Republican victory in the face of forecasts to the contrary.

 

Thus, there last week was the man Mr. Bush calls “the architect” — and some liberal bloggers call an evil genius — walking into the Air Force One press cabin to distribute chocolate-covered caramels to the traveling reporters. His prediction for Election Day: “Victory, victory, victory.”