The Obama campaign actually knows what it's doing

I continue to marvel that after all this time, virtually everyone in the leftie blogosphere and even the MSM continues to think they are so much smarter than Obama, Axelrod and Plouffe. Day after day, I read analyses about what the campaign has done wrong, what they continue to do wrong and what they must — must or the country is doomed — do to rescue their campaign and keep McCain from the White House.

And I laugh, because here is what they have done:

They took a little-known but well-regarded first-term Senator and made him a contender in the race for the Democratic nomination.

They raised more money than any Democrat had even dreamed of raising — most of it from ordinary citizens donating small amounts.

They whupped the political machine everyone had believed to be unbeatable.

They took over the Democratic Party.

They brought millions of new voters into the process, most of them to vote for Obama and other Democrats.

They made a black man with a bad-sounding name into the likely next President.

They have done all this on their own terms. All through the primaries, the same doom-sayers and minds of vast political brilliance instructed them on their errors and the path they should be following — all of which the campaign ignored. And despite proving they knew how to win, too many continue to believe that they know better than the campaign how to run this thing. People who have never done anything but write about politics are telling those who are actually shaping an historic and world-changing victory how it needs to be done.

Laughable.

Obama, Plouffe and Axelrod long ago demonstrated they have this well in-hand. They may yet lose, because no one can control all the factors. They cannot overcome the inherent racism that infects millions of Americans with a single, albeit brilliant, speech and the demonstration of Obama’s own life. They cannot do anything about idiot voters who pick their candidate based on tv commercials, especially those that play to their fears. They cannot prevent the flow of history as it unfolds (although, as Wall Street melts into a nasty puddle, history is favoring Obama quite a bit). What they can do is remain true to the basics of their campaign no matter what comes along:

Register voters.

Build a ground machine for GotV.

Solicit money from ordinary Americans.

Refuse to match the neocon 527 (and McCain) ugliness.

Work for a victory that does not merely win the White House but enables Obama to govern.

These guys know what they are doing. They have a proven track record. If the pundits and bloggers want to continue to pretend they know better and are smarter, well, it’s a free country. They’re allowed to be both ridiculous and wrong.