Aggressive Propaganda and the other old media spotters started up the meme about White House mid-year coattails and many picked up the script with intent or curiosity and started to read aloud from it. The elections seem a rebuke to all national power brokers who try to impact races with nothing on offer but their own dubious brands. New York shrugged off attempted influence by just about every right wing maniac of note including the Moose Queen Quitter herself and New Jersey was underwhelmed by White House attention.

Now if the President had not spent most of the last year telling his base “Be quiet, [Insert Conservative Jackass’ Name Here] is talking and by the way send me more money ” I would assume he would have had a stronger hand. That may not be entirely fair but it is pretty fair and getting more so all the time. And that is the point.

Pushed by the Almost Pointless quasi-news and its echo elsewhere, “leaders” in the Democratic Party will forget that they have done everything possible to court conservatives including give a Chairmanship to the most openly self-centered back-stabber in the senate. They will forget that conservative Democrats have crippled their efforts more often and more effectively than any Republican as evidenced by their inability to pass the cheapest most effective health care reform because “moderates” won’t allow it. They will determine that somehow the fate of governors means that Democrats who are not threatened by conservatives should abandon their constituent’s wishes and once again surrender everything worth fighting for in the mistake belief that having done so they can win something that is worth having.

Or, for once, they won’t.