If A Tree Falls.....

That giant crash you didn't just hear was yet another titan of Democrat politics' lifeless body falling to the ground under the weight of crushing ambivalence and looming disaster.  Here in Michigan, the Democrat's front runner to replace term-limited Jennifer Granholm for governor, the current Lt. Governor John Cherry, has unexpectedly dropped out of the race.  Siting a lack of interest and money, the Lt. Governor leaves a wide open contest for other Democrat successors to pick up and carry the torch of abject failure, the hallmark of the Granholm administration.

So how bad is the environment for Democrats running for elected office in Michigan in 2010?  The Lt. Governor's story, about his dropping out of the gubernatorial race, didn't even register on a list of the top ten stories published on MLive.com, a statewide online news source.  Under the banner of Most Comments, the most popular story, with 173 comments, was one about the Detroit Lions signing a Canadian league football player.  The Lions were 2-14 this year!  Almost 800 comments were spread about a handful of other Lions stories, whether or not spanking children is a good thing, that thousands of low-income Detroiters will get free high-speed internet this year, or that Michigan Republican congresswoman Candice Miller had introduced legislation requiring President Obama to declare terrorism suspects as enemy combatants.  Yet not a peep about the failed candidacy of the second highest office holder in the state.

As if that wasn't good enough news for Republicans, now we hear that U. S. Senate Democrat stalwarts Chris Dodd (CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND) will call it quits after this year.  Folks they're dropping like flies.  A growing number of Dem lawmakers, from Washington D. C. to California, are refusing to defend their cushy place at the trough, afraid to face an electorate that has become increasingly disgusted with the antics of Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  It was just a year ago that we were inundated with news stories that foretold a Democrat majority for generations to come.  The re-calibrated story is just how many Republican victories will be posted across this country on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.