Dispatches from the front

A few choice quotes to cement your bewilderment--except for Nate Silver's hortatory, declamatory tweet: "Get a grip, people."

Otherwise we've the old Democratic hand, Jim Jordan, who muses philosophically, "That’s my party: Irrational overconfidence followed by irrational despair." Somewhere in the middle is James Carville: "We’re all trying to talk ourselves into a state of panic, and we’re not quite there yet." And, from South Carolina, there's Democratic Chair Dick Harpootlian, who says--and one nostalgically imagines him saying it with stogie in mouth and bourbon and branch water in hand--"People are telling me they are worried about the polls and why Obama did so badly.... I tell 'em to get their asses over to North Carolina and help out if you are so concerned."

And that's it, the latest dispatches from the palsied, neurotic, pathologically insecure Democratic front.

Comments

[Chris Andersen]

I've been a Democrat since 2004 (Independent before that) and I have to say that what we are seeing now is the single most unappealing characteristic of Democrats: they panic at the first sign of possible defeat.

Romney has had months of bad press and, outside of a few background disgruntling, you rarely saw the kind of full on panic mode demonstrated by people like Mathews and Sullivan (yes, I know Sullivan isn't a registered Democrat, but he's a fellow traveler as far as the casual observer is concerned).

[japa21]

Democrats, as a rule, have always been ick to curl into fetal positions when under attack. I will never forgive Dukakis (even though I am not sure he woudl have been a good President) for not going all out to defend liberalism when Bush kept talking about the "L"word.

One of the things that I think caused the panic is that many people saw, or thought they saw, Obama doing the fetal crouch during the debate and assumed it would continue that way.

They should have realized the next morning when he came out swinging that that wasn't going to happen and gotten his back. They didn't.

I love the response of the SC Dem Chair.