Building the Wall

From the Gingrich Contract with America in 1994 to the Democratic takeover in 2006, the pundits ruminated on what it would take for Dems to retake Congress. For Republicans, this task may be insurmountable. Incumbency carries its own cache with better name recognition in most cases, ease at raising funds, better access to local media in Congressional districts, and more support from the national party. The Democrats are sure to erect more structural and institutional barriers and those that already exist such as McCain-Feingold favor incumbents because of the aforementioned reasons. Also the firewall of rampant cheating by organizations such as ACORN will entrench Democratic power. Much inside baseball is going on, such as whether Boehner should remain in power. If Republicans continue to be doormats to Democrats, grow an ever more encroaching bureaucracy, and concern themselves more with the opinion of mainstream media than middle America, they will be condemned to minority status forever.