"Look at the Obama Fan Club. They voted for the president because he promised to end the war, lower their taxes, veto earmarks, run a transparent government and close Guantanamo Bay. He hasn't done a single one of those things, but his fans still love him. The idiots who vote deserve what they get."
Disagreeing with that assessment is Republican campaign consultant, Brighton M. Day, who said voters are becoming more educated and, therefore, more conservative.
"The silent majority won't be silent this fall," he said. "They gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt, but now they're doubting his benefit. If a politician even appears to agree with even an insignificant part of Obama's radically left-wing agenda, these highly educated voters are throwing them out. We're seeing liberal states turn moderate, and moderate states turn conservative, and conservative states turn even more conservative.
"Our surveys indicate that people are starting to agree with Ronald Reagan that government is the problem, and the solution is not more government.
They don't want government bail-outs, government health care, higher taxes, more government regulations, more red tape and more restrictions on their freedoms."
The tide toward conservatism even has affected politicians who are trying to change elected titles. Florida Governor Charlie Crist, for example, has fallen so far behind Marco Rubio in a Senate race that he bolted the Republican Party to run as an independent.
"Crist's biggest mistake was endorsing Barack Obama's so-called stimulus package," said political columnist Gray T. Ocker. "While conservatives recognized the package as a political power grab and an unprecedented expansion of the federal government on borrowed funds, Crist was convinced that going into debt would solve our financial problems."
Congressman Annum S. Call of California said the chief problem is that voters simply want more than they can afford.
"Over my three terms I've consistently worked hard to give all my constituents everything they wanted," he said. "It used to be that if you brought the bacon home, you would get re-elected. But now people don't seem to appreciate that I brought federal money home to build the Annum S. Call Library, or the Annum S. Call Bridge, the Annum S. Call Dam or even the Annum S. Call Theater. Things have changed, and I'm just behind the eight ball."
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter said the old tactics still seem to be working for him.
"I used to be a Republican until I learned too late that my constituents were serious when they said they didn't want bigger government, higher taxes and more debt," he said. "I might be dumb, but I'm not stupid, so I switched to Democrat. I just brought in $2.5 million in borrowed federal funds to Penn State University, and now I'm up 10 percent in the polls in the Democratic primary."
Congressman B. Hein D'Aytbaul of Louisiana said Fox News is his biggest problem.
"The so-called journalists at Fox are experts at twisting the truth or turning a phrase," he said. "When I voted for the health insurance reform bill, they said Americans who don't buy private insurance will get fined $25,000. Nothing could be further from the truth. You don't have to buy insurance. You can pay a $4,000 penalty instead. You get fined 25 grand only if you refuse to pay the penalty."
Governor Rich Lawe Ure of New Hampshire said voters don't seem to appreciate creativity anymore.
"During the last 16 months it became obvious that we had raised income, property and sales taxes about as high as possible," Ure said. "So I came up with new taxes on MP3 downloads, internet access, text messaging, college tuition, title insurance and Amazon purchases. And despite all that work, I'm down in the polls. My staff and I are trying to come up with some new taxes and fees to see if we can turn things around."
"We're not too worried," Eisa P. Maislieve, an election consultant who works for Democrats, told Skinnyreporter. "Right before the election, we'll uncover new evidence that Republican candidates are racists. And if that doesn't work, we'll bring in extra voters."