DEMOCRAT FEARS FOR 2014, FACT OR FICTION???

I really hate to admit this, because I like to think of myself as being a reasonably informed individual. But after reading in one place how it is that the Democrat Party raised more money than the Republicans were able to in 2013, and then reading somewhere else about how the Number 2 Senate Democrat is now whining about how the Democrats are unable keep up with the momentum of the Republicans in 2014, I tend to get a little confused. Because which is it? It doesn’t seem that we can have it both ways.

I mean, am I to believe that the Democrats are actually getting nervous regarding their odds for being able to retain their Senate majority, particularly after the GOP avoided a partisan fight over raising the debt ceiling? Or, is it, perhaps, all nothing more than some sort of ploy to lull us all into possessing some false sense of security? Because it was in speaking to The New York Times, about the GOP, that ‘Little Dick’ Durbin summed things up by saying, "They seem to want to be on their best behavior in an election year."

‘Little Dick’ went on to add that the threat of a Republican ‘takeover’, his word not mine, of the upper chamber is becoming more real especially as outside conservative groups pour money into tight races. And of course he also took the opportunity to do what others in his party have done, which was to point to the Americans for Prosperity super PAC, led by the Koch brothers, as an example of those groups who have spent more than $20 million on commercials targeting Democrats in Senate races across the country.

‘Little Dick’ persisted in his whining by going on to complain that, "We're faced with a grim reality that more money is being spent earlier in some of these hot races than we've ever seen." And he added, "We're spending some, but we can't keep up with them." He was joined in his apparent concern by Democratic strategist David ‘My Mommy Is A Commie’ Axelrod who seemed to agree with ‘Little Dick’s’ assessment. Axelrod told the Times, "This is a serious threat." But then I suppose that depends on your politics.

In commenting further to the Times, Axelrod went on to say, "It would behoove Democratic activists and donors who are whipped up about 2016 to shift their focus, or they may be sitting here in November, looking at a Republican Senate to go along with the House." But you know, with all of the leftist billionaires and foundations that we have here in this country, I really have a very difficult time believing that the Democrats would ever find themselves having a difficult time keeping up with Republicans in the money arena.

And then we have Republicans like Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn, both of whom are now facing some pretty tough primary challenges, and were two of the cowardly Republicans who chose to take the easy way out and vote for the "clean" debt ceiling bill last week at the risk of inflaming Tea Party ire. Arizona GOP Sen. John ‘The Maverick’ McCain told the Times, "It was not an easy exercise, but it keeps the focus on the issues we want to be on." That’s a typically piss-poor excuse from "The Maverick".

And, of course, rumor also has it that the Democrats are concerned about the bungled rollout of their pet project, Obamacare. "People see national polling, and maybe the national polling is getting a little bit tougher, so they get nervous," Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine told the Times. He also said, "But at the end of the day, it ain't about national polling. It's about individual races." And on that point he’s right. Because, as they say, all politics is, after all local, therefore we can afford to take nothing for granted.

So I guess we’ll just have to wait to see just how much of what we’re now hearing from the Democrats, as it has to do with the next election, is fact and how much is fiction. But there’s one thing that’s for certain, I’m not about to let myself get overconfident, or to waist time contemplating, about what the outcome of the next election ‘might’ be. We shouldn’t pay any attention to anything that the other side says, nor should we allow it to, in anyway, have an impact on how we wish to proceed in preparing for the next election.