The dems here made out their party as anything but a paper tiger and we saw how that turned out. Hillary is no lightweight but she was badly beaten by a jr senator. She too is not as unstoppable as some make her out to be.
Hillary has been the "incumbent replacement" since before Obama was sworn in. A lot has changed, that was when Obama's approval rating was well above 50%.
Dynamics can change overnight, I have seen in a few dozen times. The Hillary juggernaut is not unstoppable, I agree, in fact I say it is vulnerable. Recent trend polls indicate people relate change to youth, and new faces. As well, change is the underlying aspect of all North American voting these days, as evidenced by Obama's initial victory, the wary support and now punishment for not having delivered.
By the time the official campaign begins, Hillary will be than older Reagan when he ran, she has an old image, she dresses old, her face is aging badly, her theme song is from the 1970's disco era, while the vote being chased is born between 1984 and 1998.
Her coronation is not guaranteed, in fact I suggest the more the royal couple act like they have a right to it, the more push back they will get.
And, it's like hockey. When a team expected to do well in the play off doesn't, the go Vancouver, fire the GM, replace the coaches, and "rebuild the team". If the Democrats want a shot at the cup, they are going to have to go deeper than Debbie suggests, and see where their polices are NOT right with the American people as well as address the manner in which these blowhards tried to implement. I say the problem in this defeat may be on Obama, but the direct cause was Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the rat pack who got so ****ing vicious.
A seasoned veteran Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister at the time explained to me over several hours of excellent rye one frozen evening in Ottawa, 'in the end, we are all elected by voters whose hopes and respect lie behind that vote. To personally demean the member is to demean the voters who elected them. We can disagree on how to get things done, but if you erode the character of your opponent, you erase it for all of us.'
The Democrats lost sight of the fact Ted Cruz, like them, was elected to a high office, and if they want their own high office respected, attacking him the way the Democrats did was their own undoing. When they started attacking him as "Mexican" and then later as Canadian, I became convinced the Democratic party is racist and xenophobic to the core.
With such crude, divisive and dishonest tactics, the Democrats deserve no respect any more than bacterium on a turd.
