Quote:
The new NBC poll has sent shock waves through the political world. This government shutdown is triggering a disastrous decline in Republican fortunes and has left President Obama largely unaffected.
Comment:
All very predictable. Here is where you make a difference, or you just curl up into a fetal position and suck your thumb.
Those who started this should have known that at some point there would be pain. I wrote about this at the very beginning. I said that they had better be serious this time.
Now Morris and probably a number of those like him are suggesting that it is time to panic.
Whether the polls are accurate or not is not the point. The point is whether or not you believe in what you are doing when you started and whether you still believe it now. If you don't believe it now, what changed your mind? The polls? If it is the polls, then you have no mind of your own.
You'd better know your own mind before picking this fight. You'd better know if you can take the heat before you get into the kitchen. If you cave in now, you look ridiculous. That's because they ( meaning the GOP ) has indeed become ridiculous.
Stay the course no matter how painful. Or simply admit that you don't believe what you have pretended to believe up till now.
I respect Dick Morris' knowledge of polling. That's his job and his area of expertise. But that is not the same as leadership. That's not the same as knowing what needs to be done and why. The question is now one of credibility. After had staked a position, and then quickly backing off of it, why should anybody trust them or believe them? The credibility of the GOP is at stake here. They are committed. There is no turning back.
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