QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 8:35 A.M. ET:  One of the heroes of the current political season is Democratic pollster and analyst Pat Caddell, who has openly and severely criticized his own party on national television and in the press.  Caddell continues his roast at NRO:

“President Obama’s undoing may be his disingenuousness,” Caddell says. After campaigning for post-partisanship, Obama, he observes, has lurched without pause to the left. “You can’t get this far from what you promised,” Caddell says, “especially when people invest in hope — you must understand that obligation. The killer in American politics is disappointment. When you are elected on expectations, and you fail to meet them, your decline steepens.”

Yeah.  Caddell was Jimmah Carter's pollster.  He knows this "disappointment" turf.

“Democrats used to be the voice of the common man in America, not his dictator,” Caddell laments. “Now, with Wall Street, their mantra is, ‘We’ll take your money, but we won’t kiss.’ The people who own the party — George Soros, the Center for American Progress, the public-employee union bosses, rich folks flying private jets to ‘ideas festivals’ in Aspen — they’re Obama’s base.”

I'm reminded of the old story about Winston Churchill, and his confrontation with Lady Astor.  Astor, appalled by Churchill's views, told him, "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison."  Churchill replied, "If you were my wife, I'd take it."

If I were married to the Democratic Party today, with that political base, I'd take the poison.

September 3, 2010