Virginia Tomorrow

Is the only way to describe what the Democrats are doing to themselves in the final days of this year’s campaign.

October 23rd may go down as one of the most amazing days in the history of the modern Democratic party in Virginia.

First, we had a full Pre-Mortem.

For those who are not familiar with the term, it occurs when a colleague or fellow party member of a candidate publicly discusses the reasons the candidate won’t win prior to the time the voters have actually cast a ballot.

The Pre-Mortem is sometimes known by the title of the old Turtles song “No, No, No, It Ain’t Me Babe.”

The Pre-Mortem is a mechanism by which blame for a defeat is squarely placed on the candidate and not on any condition that you may have created or exacerbated that could have contributed to the loss.

The Washington Post ran a front page Pre-Mortem (wiseacres are calling it a Creigh-Mortem) today in which a high ranking Obama administration official anonymously complained that Deeds should have listened to us, that he didn’t take advice or assistance from the White House  and that he rejected the counsel of their DNC Chair and Deed’s Governor, Tim Kaine.

At 1 p.m.today, it’s front-page Drudge Report and the Post’s web site flagged it as the most read story in Friday’s paper.

Just exquisite.

It’s Creigh’s fault!

The altered national environment in which independent voters have become disenchanted with the congressional Democrats is not mentioned.

The unfulfilled promise of the Obama administration to conduct politics in a manner that would transcend partisan rivalries is ignored.

As are the complications that ensued for Deeds when Governor Kaine accepted the position of DNC Chair.

If only Creigh wasn’t so stubborn.

Then, the MUDCAT EXPLOSION.

Mudcat Saunders, political strategist and NASCAR Democrat guru couldn’t take it any longer.

All this negative stuff about Creigh when the national environment is killing him.

And the White House and the DNC sits by and let’s him get outspent 2.5 to 1 in NOVA.

Deeds isn’t listening?

Mudcat says this is  ”Bull…..” and calls the White House leaking “Chicken…”

It would have been “devastating” for Deeds to embrace Obama more closely.

As for Doug Wilder, Mudcat spares the epithets and merely observes that “he doesn’t mean anything anymore.”

I doubt that the President will be inviting Mudcat to the White House for a beer anytime soon.

The McDonnell campaign is wisely keeping mum as the Democrats stage a national pyschodrama.

But the word that is being privately circulated among GOP activists is this:

AWESOME!