.....is the thought-provoking headline on this Victor Davis Hanson op-ed in today's Chicago Tribune. Hanson says the Ds chances of taking back the U.S. House or Senate in '06 and the White House in '08 are slim, for several reasons. Unemployment is low. The hoped-for Rove indictment has fizzled, progress is clear in Iraq, the need for tougher immigration policies and spending cuts hardly argue for election of Democrats, and ramped-up global production of consumer goods render D class war memes even staler. Hanson concludes:
Yes, much of the public is grumpy at high gas prices. It does not like the costs in Iraq and continuing budget deficits. And people worry about unchecked illegal immigration and dangers on the horizon, from Iran to North Korea. But when Americans get inside the voting booth, they probably will think the envisioned Democratic remedy is worse than the current perceived Republican disease.
And they will be right.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 23, 2006 10:08 AM | Email ThisExcept in the alternate reality zone of the Socialist Republic of Seattle. Where Baghdad Jim is a hero, Osama 'mama Murry is viewed as an intellect and Bush = Hilter is viewed as pollitical discourse.
Posted by: JCM on June 23, 2006 10:30 AMIt seems like the Seattle Times runs an article every other day on the front page about how America needs innocent immigrants "whose documents might not be in order"
Posted by: nospam on June 23, 2006 10:48 AMI'm really confused. Here I was buying into the nice little one-man campaign John McDonald has going in the comments on this site recently – you know, the one where he with great certainty and pride casts gloom and doom on the coming elections.
Now you post this.
Is this to say Mr. McDonald is incorrect? He is not the great prognosticator and political analyst his tone implies? That he won't be sitting gleefully the day after the elections muttering to himself: "I really suck it to those traitorous Republicans good. Now us REAL conservatives can bring the party back to its roots!"
You mean this won't be so?
Oh dear.
P.S. In other news, Doug Parris is actually a really nice fellow. Truly.
Posted by: Eric Earling on June 23, 2006 10:57 AMhttp://www.prorev.com/legacy.htm
Posted by: Pagar on June 23, 2006 11:19 AMBecause when people look at the cast of characters running the show and screeching on the dem side, it scares people away!
Posted by: Misty on June 23, 2006 11:38 AMI think jacob is gonna have troubles with it 'cause he's still working his way through the "Politics for DUmmies" (pop-up version ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on June 23, 2006 11:41 AMI say Bush was right, continue the fight.
Posted by: Dan on June 23, 2006 11:50 AMhttp://www.usarmy.com/
Posted by: Jacob on June 23, 2006 12:23 PM"But when Americans get inside the voting booth,"
because our wonderful county council voted to deny us the continued experience of getting inside the voting booth.
When are they up for election?
Marilyn
Posted by: Marilyn on June 23, 2006 12:56 PMMakes no sense.
Posted by: Cheryl on June 23, 2006 01:16 PMActually no one can truly say that they have won an election in which King County voters participated this last election cycle…when you get right down to it, there likely has not been a clean election in King County in decades.
The King County Democrat Machine deliberately and systematically, over decades, has put in place a system by which those with a proclivity to cast extralegal votes are afforded an opportunity to do so. They then campaign amongst disaffected groups (misfits & failures) encouraging the disaffected to ‘vote early and vote often’ egging them on stoking resentment thereby nurturing a sense of entitlement.
One cannot say they have 'won' an election in which the margin of 'victory' was surpassed by the many times number of questionable (in the case of KC clearly illegal) votes any more than one can claim title to something they have stolen.
Sounds rather familiar...well, I guess enemies/traitors all sound alike.
Posted by: Susu on June 23, 2006 02:15 PMStirring the pot again as always I see:-)
I met Doug Parris too at the State convention. Of course he didn't recognize me as being a member of the infamous "thousand pounds of goons" despite my then sergeant-at-arms duties.
Getting back on topic. Our side will be just fine during this election-cycle if we get everyone to turn out.
After speaking with our "progressive" friends the other night I heared how demoralized and politically fractured their coalition really is. You gotta love it when liberals talk about how the Democrats need to lose in 2006 so it will teach the party leadership to put "real" Democrats on the ballot in '08.
Don't tell me Liberal~John is playing both sides of the street?!
Posted by: alphabet soup on June 23, 2006 03:21 PMYou raise an important point, that these intra-party squabbles occur on both sides of the aisle. Thus, it amusing whenever some of the faithful on either side complain about the other side being some sort of united bastion of evil committed to trouncing their opponents at all cost. Hardly the case for either party.
As our Senate race is showing and as the debate in Congress about Iraq also reveals, the Dems are hardly free of it this year.
In the meantime I join the nutroots in cheering for Russ Feingold in '08! The longer that guy has traction in the primary season the better.
Posted by: Eric Earling on June 23, 2006 04:21 PMhttp://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_174090621.html
Jacob believes the devil is impeding his efforts to unseat five-term Representative Chris Cannon.
He says there's another force that wants to keep him from going to Washington and the devil is what it is.
Jacob says that since he decided to run for Congress, Satan has disrupted his business deals, preventing him from putting as much money into the race as he had hoped.
Jacob said during a Wednesday immigration event that the devil was working against him, then reiterated his belief yesterday in a meeting with The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board.
He says there's been a lot of adversity, and there's no question he has had experiences that believes are due to an outside force.
Posted by: pbj on June 24, 2006 05:26 AMNot a single top official of the administration is under indictment for anything and ex-official Scooter Libby is politically indicted for a crime that doesn't exist. He will be vindicated but it will take awhile. GW Bush places the duty of his administration to the country well ahead of his own political image or he would have defied the indictment like Clinton tried to do several times.
GW Bush and the Congress took America to war in Iraq based on historically exhaustive and well vetted grounds in order to turn America away from the insane foreign policy of the Clinton administration, (the most dishonest, un-American administration ever) that unwittingly supported the perpetration of 911.
As demonstrated again by Jacob at June 23, 2006 10:56 AM, lying is the only tool that liberals have. Bush is the most honest forthright and truthful President in American History, and that’s part of the reason why liberals like Jacob are so gratuitously insistent upon insinuating from pure nonsense that he lies. In the worn-out ethos of moral relativism liberals believe that smearing enemies as liars makes their insane stupidity neutral by comparison.
What they always miss is that they are the biggest victims of their own deceit.
Hey Jake . . . keep up those Bush attacks buddy . . .
Posted by: Amused by liberals on June 26, 2006 03:17 PMHowever, that's not how it works in real life. The Republicans are in power, people asks do they like the guys in power, do they think they know what they are doing, are they happy about the direction of the country. 60% of the public has concluded NO and another 10% are wavering. They don't like the excess spending, they don't like the pathetic response to Katrina, the poor treatment of our soldiers, the immigration plan, the lack of real energy plan, pandering on social issues but doing nothing, and the drug welfare program. These people will vote for Democrats because they are firing Republicans. It will not be a balanced judgement that includes the anti-war and green peace activists nut cases on the other side of the ledger - sorry.
In fact the Republicans are going to get hit with a few more headaches before election day. Rising interest rates are threatening to end the housing boom that has kept the deficit in check a little. If the housing boom ends then Bush is headed to 500 or 600 Billion per year deficits.
It is hard to imagine a scenario where the Democrats don't win big in November. I think Bin Laden would need to be captured or killed about 1 week before the election, the price of gas go to $1.90 per gallon, and the deficit cut in half for the election to be competitive for Republicans.
Posted by: John McDonald on June 27, 2006 11:26 AMThey are smart enough to see through the empty desperate liberal attacks that over-simplify every issue into negative sound bites ignoring the real truth behind each issue in favor of a tediously simplistic castigation of GW Bush.
Lying is the only tool that liberals have. Bush is the most honest forthright and truthful President in American History, and that’s part of the reason why liberals are so gratuitously insistent upon insinuating from pure nonsense that he lies. In the worn-out ethos of moral relativism liberals believe that smearing enemies as liars makes their insane stupidity neutral by comparison. If liberals can strip the meaning of honesty and neutralize the importance of character, they can excuse their own dishonest degeneracy.
John McDonald uses lies (simplistic statements based on hackneyed sources) to accuse Bush of things, some of which have nothing whatsoever to do with Bush. Indulging in the dissemination of conclusions that are belied by tangible reality is a political mistake that has humorously doomed Al Gore to political failure. Everyone with any sense knows that the world is not going to collapse from global warming, and the same common-sensibility supports recognition that anyone who blames any part of Katrina on GW Bush is either pathetically ignorant or insane.
Most Americans will not respond to this type of foolishness, because it is stupid on its face, but liberal routinely include such nonsense in their litany of piled logical fallacies. There is a majority of people in America that are fed up with liberalism more than Bush and they support his efforts in Iraq because their sons and neighbors coming home from Iraq tell a different story than the liberal MSM.
As time passes, voices like those of John McDonald, John Murtha, Ward Churchill, and the Democrat Party will fade because real life will expose their foolish speculations as empty treasonous garbage. GW Bush will still – as always -- be telling the truth, outmaneuvering liberals, and protecting our country from the real enemy that liberals want to give-in to. The liberal machinations polls and such designed by liberals and used to promote deceitful misdirection will be liberals’ own undoing.
In weiging the credibility of the sides, they will consider the difference between empty lying rancorous attacks against Bush in contrast to the deliberate, careful, respectful and assertive actions of the Bush administration in protecting America.
American voters will see that Bush is not America's problem . . . that those who attack Bush while he attacks our real mortal enemies are the real problem . . . and giving power to mental defectives is not a good idea. The Republicans will win resoundingly in the coming mid term elections because (despite evidence to the contrary--John McDonald) most of America is sane.
Posted by: Amused by liberals on June 27, 2006 01:23 PM