We all know that her husband is not all that welcome these days out there on the campaign trail, as most Democrats running for office busy themselves trying to come up with excuses for not being able to appear with him. Their attempt here is to convince voters that they think he’s as big of an asshole as many voters seem to. Barry has proven himself to be the political equivalent of the black plague, no pun intended here, during this election season, and with us now about a month out from what by most accounts could likely prove to be some pretty critical midterm elections, Moochelle is now seen as being the one most capable of riding to the rescue.
So in hitting the campaign trail it has now become Moochelle’s task to try to ‘salvage’ what’s left of this disaster of a presidency and to, in the process, try to help get Democrat candidates elected giving her husband a fighting chance to finish off what’s left of this country. Starting today, Moochelle will be heading to New England where she will make an appearance in support gubernatorial candidates Martha Coakley in Massachusetts and Rep. Mike Michaud in Maine. She follows up with a pair of Midwest stops on Tuesday: an appearance with Mary Burke, the Democrat candidate for governor in Wisconsin, and in Chicago for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn.
Moochelle also plans appearances this month in Iowa, where Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley and Republican Joni Ernst are locked in one of the year's most competitive Senate races, as well as in Michigan for Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer. Moochelle made her 2014 campaign trail debut last month with stops in Georgia with Michelle Nunn, who hopes to pick up a key Senate seat for Democrats on Nov. 4, and in Wisconsin with Burke, who is trying to unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a potential presidential candidate.
Voters will soon decide which party it is that they think should be in control of Congress during Barry's remaining two years in office, along with determining control of more than 30 governor's offices. Republicans are expected to keep control of the House and hope to pick up the 6 seats needed to claim the Senate majority and, with it, control of both houses of Congress. While such an outcome would leave Barry with scant hope of enacting any major legislation before leaving office, it would increase the odds of America being able to survive until he’s finally gone.
Democrats have been clamoring for Moochelle to campaign with them even as they avoid appearing with Barry. Barry, for example, has not campaigned for Nunn in Georgia, where he lost in 2008 and 2012. So far this election season, he has campaigned only with Democrat candidates from his home state of Illinois. A planned joint appearance in Denver in July with Sen. Mark Udall quickly became a solo Barry stop when Udall decided at the last minute he just couldn’t bring himself to appear on the same stage as Barry and at the same time.
At her campaign stops, Moochelle encourages turnout among base voters whom both she and Barry have chided for tuning out politics in election years when there is no presidential race. She tells them that staying home would be a disservice to the work the president they voted into office is trying to complete. Moochelle said at a Democrat Party event last month, "If we want to keep making that change that we all believe in, then we need a president who will fight for that change but we also need a Congress who will pass it, and leaders at our state level who support it." She added, "And frankly, if we lose these midterm elections, it's going to be a whole lot harder to finish what we've started."
I would argue that the point of this election should be to make it as difficult as possible for Barry to finish what he started. And it was Republican Party spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski who recently said it wasn't surprising that Democrat candidates prefer campaigning with Moochelle over a president who is sagging in the polls. And she went on to say, "But she still represents the same failed Obama policies that are wildly unpopular and dragging Democrats down across the board." Polices that have but one purpose, the "fundamental transformation" of America.
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