Break their backs

by kos [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Yesterday I wrote about the importance of not just winning, but breaking their backs and crushing their spirits.

How do we do this? We currently have a 38 seat majority -- 236 to 198. Stephanie Tubbs Jones seat, a safe Democratic one, is vacant.

So get this. We get 31 seats, that would give Democrats a 101 seat majority in the House, 268 to 167.

Can we get to 31? I've thought so all year. Now we have the "respected" electoral prognosticators jumping aboard that bandwagon, like Stu Rothenbeg:

While I recently increased my expectation of Democratic House gains to 10-20 seats, that range looks too low. Hardly any Democratic-held seats are at great risk — Democratic incumbents Kanjorski, Carol Shea-Porter (N.H.), Nick Lampson (Texas), Tim Mahoney (Fla.) and Don Cazayoux (La.), as well as an open seat in Alabama, are a few obvious exceptions — so the DCCC is almost entirely on offense.

Democrats are now likely to net at least 20 seats, with gains closer to 30 quite possible given the cycle’s dynamics, poll numbers we are seeing and the Democratic financial advantage. This is the kind of cycle when even one or two third-tier Democratic challengers will win, inflating the party’s net gain even further.

When was the last time a party held an advantage in the triple digits? Remember the big Gingrich revolution in 1994? That was just a 26 seat majority. We have to go back to the 102nd Congress, 1991-1993, to get that kind of massive majority -- 270 Democrats to 164 Republicans -- and that was a Dixiecrat-infested majority.

We're already seeing Republicans blame their imminent presidential loss on the fact that McCain is "not conservative". Remember, conservatism can never fail, it's just people who fail conservatism. But we oust enough Republicans to give Dems a triple-digit majority? There's no way to spin losing people like John Shadegg, Randy Kuhl, Marylin Musgrave, Tim Walberg, Robin Hayes, Mean Jean Schmidt, Steve Chabot and so on Republicans being "too liberal". We get a triple majority, there's no excuse they'll be able to hide behind.

This isn't about winning. It's about destroying the conservative movement, and their dangerous incompetence has given us an historic opportunity to deliver a killing blow. Leave everything on the road.