Robert Gibbs to be the DNC Chair? (KingShamus)

A few years back, some on the Right would refer to Candidate Barack's legion of fan-bois and sycophants as 'Obamatons' for their seemingly robotic mind-numbed attitude.  Nowadays, I think that isn't particularly accurate.  Members of Team Bambi are spreading out all over the place.  The Obamatons have morphed into The Blob. 

It turns out everybody's favorite chubby condescending press secretary, Robert Gibbs, is heading to--the DNC chairmanship?

Democratic insiders are taking the temperature of some top party donors about the possibility of naming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading into President Barack Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, senior officials tell POLITICO.

Under the scenario being tested, Tim Kaine, the current DNC chairman and former governor of Virginia, would be named to a top administration post, perhaps in the Cabinet, the officials said.

Ed Morrissey notes a few sticky details.

For the record, Gibbs’ experience consists almost entirely of serving on communication teams for politicians.  After graduating from college in 1993, he worked on the staffs of a series of House and Senate members before joining John Kerry’s team in 2003 for his 2004 presidential bid as press secretary, and then resigning when Kerry fired Jim Jordan.  He then took a position as a mouthpiece for an independent group that opposed Howard Dean’s bid, and later in 2004 began working for Barack Obama’s Senate campaign, moving to the presidential campaign after two years on Capitol Hill.

So he's a lippy hack who doesn't play nice in the sandbox with John Kerry and Howard Dean.  Okay, he's got that going for him.  But what about, you know, experience?

Note what his CV doesn’t include.  Gibbs has never run an organization, or worked as an executive at all.  The most he’s ever done was manage a small communications staff at the White House.  He has no experiencein fundraising, as his campaign experiences have all been on the communications side.  He has never stood for election himself, which isn’t a complete disqualification for the job, but it certainly doesn’t help, either.  In short, there is nothing at all in his background to recommend Gibbsfor a position which requires coordination, fundraising prowess, organization, and a political talent with experience and connections supporting it.

Doesn't this seem sorta...familiar?  I mean, Barack Obama was a dweeb junior Senator with a little over a hundred days spent in the upper chamber.  Before that, he was a state senator, then a BFF with Bill Ayers and before that a community organizer.  His lack of actual qualifications, real world experience or executive acumen didn't hold back St. Barry of the Sacred Pants-Crease from being President of the world's only superpower.  Why should it matter for Gibbsy if wants to be the boss at the comparatively bush-leagues of the DNC? 

You gotta wonder what Bob Gibbs has done that makes anybody think he's ready to shake down Democrat-leaning donors for big money donations.  I had no idea making unfunny patronizing digs at members of the White House press corps could snag you an executive job at one of the two major US political parties.  Unless looking and acting like your least favorite high school algebra teacher is somehow a prerequisite for the job, homeboy really doesn't have much going for him.  

Besides all that, there is something more going on here.  If Gibbs gets to be DNC chair, nobody could be terribly surprised.  The Donkey-Puncher Party always fall in love with the latest shiny new object that falls into their view.

Think about it.  There were probably more qualified candidates running for the Democrat Party presidential nomination of 1960.  Somehow the Democrats managed to nominate a noob Senator named John Kennedy.  Nearly any Democrat could've been CEO of America in the 1976 election.  Who did the Dems pick?  A relative unknown southern dude named Jimmy Carter.  Before being the mack daddy of the Oval Office Intern Bang Competition, Bill Clinton was 'The Man From Hope', a charismatic Baby Boomer governor who hadn't made a name for himself outside of the parochial world of Arkansas politics.

Why are the Democrats so fixated on the coveted "New Guy"?  Maybe because their actual policies are so damn old. 

Ponder the nature of FDR's signature achievement, Social Security.  It's a top-down, one-sized-fits-all program that you have to be a part of under the penalty of federal punishment.  Now think about Barack Obama's most sweeping government reform, nationalized health care.  It's a top-down, one-sized-fits-all program that you have to be a part of under the penalty of federal punishment.

Same Shitty Socialism, Different Damn Millennium.

In order to disguise the fact that their ideas haven't progressed much past 1938, Democrats almost always have to get the latest and greatest model of progressive politician to advance their agenda.  Is it any wonder this obsession with the fresh-out-of-the-box liberal savior has now permeated nearly every facet of their party?

Maybe Gibbs gets passed over for the job of DNC chair.  Who knows?  By itself, it has very little bearing on anything.  But the fact that he is even being considered for the post tells you a lot about the mind-set of the modern Democrat Party--none of it particularly healthy.

Comments

[Steve Skubinna]

Why are the Democrats so fixated on the coveted "New Guy"?

Now that is a thought provoking question, which had not occurred to me. Why do the Democrat Old Hands Since Johnson always self destruct, flame out, auger in? Humphrey, Mondale, Gore, all the guys who ought to be the elder statesmen of the party end up stomping on their... ummm... on their chances. Even Kerry, repulsive toad that he is, had a long political career that ought to have counted for something.

Perhaps the more of a track record you establish in Democrat politics, the less appealing to voters you get. Hmmm.

Well, Gibbs is probably the one candidate the Republicans would have chosen for DNC had they a vote.

[KingShamus]

Steve: A lot of truth in there. As for Gibbs, I hope he stays around national politics for a while. He's awful fun to pick on.