And the Winner for the Worst Piece of Political Analysis Is…

Every once in a blue moon I come across a piece that fully captures the advanced state of decay at the heart of the World’s Oldest Political Party. It truly is difficult to know where to start with something like this. Its errors are so many and so fulsome, its analysis so riddled with the deepest sort of wishful thinking. It is like a dispatch from a parallel universe in which Constanza’s law (you remember, right? Just do the opposite of whatever your instincts tell you) has been suspended. In this universe bad instincts are followed to the hilt. It is like a lunatic at the wheel of school bus headed for a cliff saying, “Seriously, I've seen these things FLY!” He has failed to absorb the lesson of the Clinton presidency: the people will vote for Democrats only when they work as hard as they can to pretend they don't believe a word of party doctrine.

What is especially hard to believe about this drivel is that the guy who wrote is actually paid to provide strategic political advice to Democrat candidates for government. Oprah Winfrey-like, Al Quinlin suggests that the real problem with Democrats is that they have lost touch with their inner Democrat. The public, he says, hungers for “authenticity” and will vote for it in droves if only Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, et. al. will give it to them. (Yes, yes, give it to them, in the words of H.L. Mencken, good and hard.)

One can only hope that this piece is making the rounds on the DailyKos and has found its way into the reading folders of all the Democrat higher-ups in town. If the Republicans had a mole writing policy at the DNC they could not have written a more favorable strategy.