There once was a time when Chris Matthews was a credible journalist as he tended to be a Moderate-Liberal and was no great fan of Bill Clinton. He even hosted the Rush Limbaugh show a few times back in the 90’s, but sometime during the Bush Administration (around the time of the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003) , Matthews had a nervous breakdown. He then he latched onto Obama and declared him to be God and the perfect man, and now he lashes out Charles Johnson style at any critic of Obama as a racist.
Chris Matthews is a man who is not functioning fully with a mental capacity. He now claims that had he run for The Democratic nomination for Senator in Pennsylvania, that he would have won. Even worse, Matthews claims he would be a star for the Democrats.
Election years brings larger challenges, starting with the party conventions, and then the long campaign. Matthews was enthusiastic about Barack Obama in 2008, but now he is disappointed. “I vote for heroes,” he says. “Obama’s strengths were apparent; his weaknesses weren’t. We saw someone who was very brilliant, but what we didn’t see was someone who didn’t have the necessary skills as a backroom deal maker.”
This time around, he thinks it will be close. A lot depends on three factors, he says, such as “how Romney performs during and after the debates—does he come across as a human being? If he does, look out, Obama. Then, [the subject of] unemployment—if it goes up again above 8.5 percent in October. Put them together, with the huge amount of spending that the Republicans can use to trumpet any triumphs in those two areas in the last week or so— the money they have now that they could never spend before—just trumpeting the latest bad economic news, pounding it home to people. Don’t tell me that’s not going to have an impact.”
As for his own political ambitions, he says that dream is over. “I know this: If I had run and won and beaten [Senator Pat] Toomey, I would be one of the Democrats people talk about today,” Matthews says. “I’m not dreaming here. I would be one of the stars of the Democratic Party—there aren’t that many. My agenda now is to do what I’m doing, which… if you’ll notice, I like.”
Chris Matthews has gone down the path of Charles Johnson and Andrew Sullivan. He has lost the credibility he once had and has become something of a joke with his comment about getting a “thrill up my leg” after an Obama speech. Both men worship Obama as a political/cultural deity who does no wrong. If Romney wins on November 6th, I would put these two on a suicide watch.
