Bill,
Yesterday, the Boston Red Sox completed their worst home season in 47 years. With the 3rd highest payroll in baseball, the result could hardly have proved more disappointing. The recriminations emerging from their failure began with last seasons unprecedented collapse, and culminated with the historic trade of three of their stars in mid season. The players didn't care. The old manager lost control. The new manager belittled the players in public. The old GM spent money unwisely. The new GM wasn't given enough control and was undermined by ownership. In the end, for whatever reason, they just weren't very good. As Bill Parcells once said, "you are what your record says you are."
This sort of squabbling of course is the mark of teams that are losing. The Republicans, who are understandably apoplectic that an election they thought could be won by a gerbil, is in grave danger of being seized by a man they presume is the devil incarnate . So there is the endless denying, analyzing, blaming, strategizing, and advising. And of course, hand wringing.
If Romney crushes the President next Wednesday (and just how likely is that?) and the polls reverse themselves it will all go away. If the Dems somehow lose an election that is now widely reported by the evil left wing media as nearly a sure thing, the circular firing squad will decamp to the White House, and Democrats will hang David Axelrod and Jim Messina by the lampposts on Pennsylvania Avenue (how's that for mixing metaphors?). But if the trend continues as it has and the President prevails, all the ancillary explanations will not matter. There will be only explanation that counts, and that is that his opponent just wasn't good enough.
Eli
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