“Going into 2008, 27 percent of Americans approved of Bush. Eighty percent thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. Over 90 percent thought the economy was bad or poor. If we can’t win with those numbers, said James Carville, we ought to go into a new line of work. Obama won, but only because of those appalling numbers. In every state except Missouri where Bush’s approval was above 35 percent, McCain carried the state. In 2010, Obama will not have George W. Bush to kick around anymore and Republicans will not have ‘Bush’s war’ or ‘the Bush economy’ to defend. If Americans think the country is still on the wrong course, as most now do, and the economy is still dismal, as most now do, the only way to protest will be to vote against the party that controls Congress and the White House. Despite all the media mockery of the ‘Birthers,’ ‘Truthers,’ Tea Party and town-hall ‘Nazis,’ it is the populist-conservative center-right that is not only on fire but came out to vote in 2009.” (11/05/09)