President Barack Hussein Obama’s  (peace be unto him) political advisers, desperately trying to avoid the Conservative political tidal wave that is scheduled to wipe out the Democratic Party in the Midterm elections, are floating a bunch of half-baked ideas, including national advertisements, in an attempt to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists.

White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are frantically looking for some way to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of minimizing the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate.  The “smartest people in the room” believe that they see an opportunity for exploitation after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.

According to one anonymous Democratic strategist:

We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party.

Democrats are a house divided unto themselves. The party’s House and Senate campaign committees don’t want to do anything that calls attention to high unemployment and the drop in Obama’s popularity  Endangered Congressional candidates want to grab any money that is out there for their localized campaigns.

Late Sunday night, White House advisers denied that a national ad campaign was being planned:

Senior Obama Adviser David Axlerod said:

There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House or the Democratic National Committee.

The Democrats that want to do it say that a national ad campaign, most likely on cable television, would complement those individual campaigns and give Democrats a chance to redefine the stakes. The afore-mentioned Democratic strategist said voters did not now see much threat to them from a Republican takeover of Congress, even though some Tea Party-backed candidates and other Republicans have taken positions that many (Liberal and RINO) voters consider extreme, like shutting down the government to get their way, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and ending unemployment insurance.

So far, Scooter has largely limited his campaigning to fundraisers and small events. That will change soon as he tries (a last-ditch attempt) to rally the flagging faithful, officials said.

To try to re-capture the messianic allure he had for younger voters who supported him in 2008, Mr. Obama will hold four big campaign-style rallies, the first Sept. 28 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with satellite transmission to campuses in other states. The later rallies will be in Ohio, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He also will send e-mail and record robocalls to spur voters, and conduct a national “town hall” Webcast in October.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said:

These events are about activating the Obama grass roots to help organizationally in terms of volunteers for get-out-the-vote efforts.  We’re not going to get all the 2008 Obama voters out. We may not get most of them. But in close races, it can be decisive.

Obama will also step up his efforts to draw contrasts between the parties, in particular by pounding away on his call for extending the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, except for “millionaires and billionaires.” You know, the people that actually create jobs.  Republicans want the tax cuts extended for people of all income levels, not just incomes below $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for families, as the president has proposed.

Republicans strategists remain steadfast in their belief that they will make big gains in November, even as the establishment states their belief that they are unlikely to win the Senate race in Delaware after the victory in the Republican primary there of Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party-backed candidate, over Representative Michael N. Castle, a professional “moderate” Republican, of the the “reach-across-the-aisle” variety.  Also last week, Alaska’s Senate race became convoluted when Senator Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican nomination to a Tea Party adherent, Jeff Miller, mounted a write-in candidacy against him, saying:

Alaska is not fair game for outside extremists.

John Weaver, a Republican Party consultant said:

While we may have a handful of nominees out of the mainstream, the American people have come to the conclusion this administration and this Congress are out of the mainstream.

Remember 1994?   Democrats were in power and became similarly confident when Republican primaries yielded candidates that all the “experts” said were too far right for the general election. Yet the tidal wave against Democrats that year was strong enough to carry those newcomers into office and put Republicans in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

With the exception of Ms. O’Donnell in Delaware, Republican nominees that Democrats like to whine about as extremists, including in Senate races in Nevada, Colorado, Kentucky and even blue-state Connecticut, are even with their Democratic rivals in polls or ahead.

And even as Obama and his minions feverishly scurry about in the confines of the White House situation room, trying to figure out a strategy for the final Midterm campaign push, advisers are having to cope with the expected exit of the chief of staff, Rahm Rahmbo Emanuel, to run for mayor of Chicago. Rahmbo, who as a member of Congress helped engineer the Democratic takeover of the House in 2006, is among his party’s foremost strategists when it comes to Congressional elections.

Peter M. Rouse (who?), one of Mr. Obama’s closest advisers, has assumed additional responsibilities. Rouse, who is intensely private, does not want the high-profile job of chief of staff; instead he is helping Scooter vet names. Leading candidates are said to be Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, and Robert Bauer, the White House counsel.

On top of the concerns about Rahmbo leaving,  the strategy discussions with Congressional Democrats come after 21 months of battles over the legislation that Obama has railroaded through against the wishes of the American people.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are complaining that Obama aides, including  David Axelrod, and Jim Messina, the deputy chief of staff, do not consult with them enough and are more concerned with positioning Mr. Obama for his 2012 reelection race than with re-electing Democrats now.

Uh oh.  Trouble in paradise.

At the Democratic National Committee, aides already have started work on a database to link the most controversial statements of the Tea Party-backed candidates to possible Republican presidential aspirants.

The database will point out, for example, that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are supporting the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, who once said that victims of rape should make “what was really a lemon situation into lemonade,” and Ms. O’Donnell, who has said that having women in the service academies “cripples the readiness of our defense.”

Mitt? Republicans don’t even know from day-to-day where he stands on the issues.  How can the Dems?

The tactic of linking potential Republican rivals to such statements was already in evidence last week. After Ms. O’Donnell’s victory, a party spokesman told reporters:

The fact that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin would put their name behind a candidate that believes women who serve our country ‘cripple the readiness of our defense’ make them unfit to be commander-in-chief.

Meanwhile, on Conservative websites, you can read the ramblings of those who claim to be loyal Republicans, savage those Tea Party candidates who dared to win their primaries over their “moderate, establishment” opponents. 

These “‘concerned” individuals are about as helpful to the cause of Conservative victory in the Midterm elections as the Vichy French were to the liberation of France in World War II.