The Democrats, having learned nothing from the 2002 midterms, are going to suffer even greater losses in November, possible on the scale of 1994. The tools of their destruction will be their own shrill hatred of Bush, their increasingly transparent hopes for American disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their apparent joy at each and every economic downtick at home.
Oil prices up? Good. Osama captured? Political trick. Bomb kills 70 in Bahgdad? Bush's fault. Stock market tanking? Wonderful news. Etc. On days that there is nothing they can cheer about, they attempt to destabilize, such as Mr. Lockhart's pernicious comments about the only leader in the Arab world who is actually trying to hold free elections. They would prefer what? Arafat? Khomeini? Assad? But to the Kerry Democrats, any friend the US has in the Mideast must be a puppet or a crook, as no right-thinking person could support America.
As Chistopher Hitchens points out, the Democratic Party, or at least the Kerry campaign, has ceased being the "loyal opposition" in the minds of many Americans. Sure this will play well with their base, who've hated Amerikkka since 1965, but the center won't stand for it. The Democrats lost seats in the midterms (when history suggests they should have won seats) over a much milder anti-anti-terrorism stance. But the current campaign is a shrill as Michael Moore, and getting worse, and middle America still loves their country.
If Kerry's people persist down this line, they'll not only lose the election badly, but the party will lose every competitive race down the ticket. And they won't even understand why.
Exactly my thoughts. For Dems, it's a power struggle. They want power. Republicans are simply trying to defend our country.
Go W.
Posted by: DeoDuce at September 29, 2004 09:44 AM