It’s one thing for me and my nobody blog to declare “Mission Accomplished” a few weeks early.  It’s another thing when Team Clinton hops on board the Overconfidence Express.  Paul Begala and James Carville– easily the two most entertaining political strategists out there– took the opportunity today on Huffington Post to taunt the Republican Party on its impending loss:

As Barack Obama and the Democrats appear poised for an historic sweep, we have a message for our Republican friends: It is time to point fingers. … Here’s our primer for a little game we like to call Big Losers Always Make Excuses (BLAME).

First — a couple of ground rules. You can’t blame the press or minorities. Sure, media-bashing is part of the conservative catechism, and minority voters are likely to support Barack Obama in record numbers. But finger-pointing is only interesting when you point at someone on your team. Republicans need a civil war — a steel cage death match — to sort out what they stand for. Scapegoating outsiders won’t purge the party of what’s rotting it on the inside.

Here’s the most important thing about finger-pointing: you have to start early. If you’re a Republican who wants to avoid blame for the current meltdown, you cannot afford to wait until after the election is over.

And my absolute favorite part:

We need to hear, for example, from Karl Rove. Whom will he blame? We stipulate that Karl is a genius — albeit a genius whose advice took Pres. Bush from a 91 percent approval rating down to 26. With the House of Bush ablaze, Karl is going to have to do some quick finger-pointing before they change they change his nickname from The Architect to The Arsonist.

Well worth reading all the way through.  But one thing strikes me about blatant scoreboard taunting like this.  If guys like Begala and Carville feel comfortable spending the next two weeks practicing victory dances, then Obama’s numbers must look as insurmountable to the experts as they do to me.