Democrats in Davidson County are shellshocked as Republicans sweep the county, including state House District 81 where Rayne Brown soundly defeated House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman. The majority leader seemed “to handle the results far better than some of his campaign workers who wept.”

Democratic Party chairman Roy Holman offers up the same old excuse:

(Holman) said he felt the Democrats were blamed largely for matters over which they had little control. Holman said he wouldn’t argue that the economy has seen better days, but said to blame the Democrats for all the problems is wrong. He said the Republican leadership under President George W. Bush led to the problems that the Obama administration is working to rectify.

“You can’t correct eight years of downsliding in a year-and-a-half,” Holman said, “but we’ve got to take the blame for it.”

He said he was disappointed that the local Democratic party provided Davidson County well-educated and well-qualified candidates, but the Republican candidates may as well have been running unopposed.

“Our candidates offered so much to Davidson County,” Holman said. “The voters turned their backs on them.”

With all respect to Mr. Holman, this is yet another example of the way Democrats and President Obama talk out of both sides of their mouths. They work so hard to transform the country in a less than two years, but when it doesn’t work, they say the country can’t be transformed in two years. Voters simply got tired of it.