Buckley is Scared of 2010 Prospects

Fresh on the heels of a UNH poll showing President Obama’s approval dipping below 50% and yet another poll, and one from the liberal blog Daily Kos at that,  showing Paul Hodes losing to a Republican in the race for US Senate. There is more hand wringing and worrying from the very top of the NHDP High Command.

Politico has a story detailing the concerns of National Democrats at their winter meeting in snowy Washington, DC.  Included in the story are remarks made  by NHDP Chair Ray Buckley and NHDP Vice Chair Marth Fuller Clark.  It is a fascinating look into their fears for 2010 and also how they don’t see how Paul Hodes, or John Lynch, will be able to provide them with a strong top of the ticket.  Let’s a take a look at what Buckley and Fuller Clark had to say.

Raymond Buckley, the Democratic chairman in New Hampshire, brought up the party’s wipeout in 1994, when they lost both the House and Senate two years after President Clinton was elected.

“The Democratic base…sat home,” Buckley reminded fellow party members from the Eastern region in a session that was part pep talk and part intervention. “And that was just enough.”

I take this to mean that he is fearing that NH Democrats will stay at home because of the failure of the administration to deliver on the far left’s pet concerns including ending American involvement in the War in Iraq, passing a cap and trade bill, and a massive government overhaul of the American health care system.  Without these accomplishments and a perceived weak uninspiring top of the ticket–Lynch being seen as too moderate and Hodes as being seen as well, Hodes– the far left which has taken over the NH Democratic Party will be unhappy and stay at home.

Martha Fuller Clark was even more forth coming and showed exactly what propelled the Democratic takeovers of 2006 and 2008.

“We are nervous — we are all nervous,” added state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, a vice chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. “We don’t have Bush on the ballot and we don’t have the great presidential candidacy of Barack Obama in 2008.”

So essentially the elections of Carol Shea Porter and Paul Hodes to the US Senate can only be attributed to either having Bush (by proxy) or Obama on the ballot?  This does  not  bode well for how a top of the ticket will look with only Hodes and Lynch being the standard bearers for the NH Democratic Party.  That comment should also take the Democrat’s favorite past time of connecting every Republican candidate to Bush, seeing as even Martha Fuller Clark now sees him as a non issue in the campaign.

The AP has more whining from Ray Buckley from the DNC confab.

Raymond Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, said the national Democratic party needs to help state groups elevate the Obama campaign rhetoric.

“We can’t win in 2010 if all we’re doing is celebrating the election of 2008,” said Buckley, who is also vice chairman of the DNC. “We haven’t gotten out the message of this administration’s successes.”

Of course to accomplish that, the Democratic Party would have to come to Americans with accomplishments that they would actually support.  According to recent polling health care is one that would not help their chances and fails badly amongst independents.

All in all, Buckley is showing his hand and that he scared of his party’s prospects in 2010 and how Fuller Clark is unhappy with their chances and their top of the ticket.  If I were a Democratic candidate I would be pretty upset with my party leadership saying that this election will be a disaster.