Great Minds Think Alike, Paul Rahe Edition

Here is me on 2/19/09: 

"...it is One Term City for the Big O...this guy's well of goodwill is a mile wide and an inch deep"

Here is Paul Rahe today:

"Obama’s support is a mile wide and a quarter of an inch deep."

Also today, Rahe traces the arc of destruction that Obama has left upon his own party:

 In consequence, none of these psephologists has reflected adequately on the significance of the emergence of the Tea-Party Movement, on the meaning of Scott Brown’s election and the particular context within which he was elected, on the election of Chris Christie as Governor of New Jersey and of Bob McDonnell as Governor of Virginia, and on the political earthquake that took place in November, 2010. That earthquake, which gave the Republicans a strength at the state and local level

That would be the same arc I traced in October of 2010:

although it is obvious, seems to be long forgotten ancient history - the anti-Obama electoral wave started with New Jersey and Virginia and rolled on up to Massachusetts. (What's more, the Dems didn't just lose these races. In the case of New Jersey they spawned, in republican rock star Chris Christie, what to them is surely a Frankenstein monster loose in the land.) So in looking at the entire string of events from Virginia, New Jersey, and Scott Brown to what is shaping up to be a very bad Nov 2nd

Just sayin'.