More on the Dying Democratic Party
In my last post, I commented on the role the MSM is playing in giving life support to the Democratic corpse. Democrats obviously see the situation differently. Some, like John Kerry, point to Ohio and contend that a party only 60,000 votes from winning the presidency is in fine shape. Others contend that Kerry was the problem. With a decent candidate, victory would have belonged to the donkey in 2004.
That's a mighty big pie in that sky. First, Kerry was chosen in the primaries specifically because he was deemed most electable. Looking at the sorry collection of contenders, he probably was. If he wasn't, that just adds another example to the long list establishing that Democrats have remarkably poor judgment. Second, George Bush is such a bad campaigner that his lack of political skill is considered one of his strengths as president. Third, the MSM pulled out all the stops in campaigning actively and relentlessly on behalf of Kerry. There isn't any more they can do. And as the alternative news network of talk radio, 527s, blogs, candidate and party web sites and informal e-mail networks continues to provide more and more voters with information which contradicts the spin from the MSM, that influence will diminish every year.
Finally, the advantage Democrats gain from vote fraud is likely to diminish as well. Keith Olbermann and the other inhabitants from the wacky nether regions of the left have done Republicans a great favor with their endless ranting about stolen elections. Coupled with the mountain of evidence over the last 3 election cycles that implicates Democrats in all kinds of election fraud, they have set the stage and helped make the case for voting reform especially strong. This will really hurt the Democrats.
So, the idea that the 2004 election results aren't that bad is pretty hollow. In fact, those results continued to confirm a trend of Republican gains at all levels of government. If the Democrats aren't in big trouble, why are the governors of New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota and California all Republicans? Why did it take vote fraud for the Democrats to grab the governor's mansion in a liberal state like Washington. Demographic trends show the red states getting stronger with every census. Even most of the blue states got less blue in the last election. Democrats are a collection of disparate special interests whose only unifying idea is that they passionately hate the GOP because they believe the GOP is evil. How is that going to forge a new majority party? What great cause are they going to build with -- gay marriage?
Michael Barone says the Democrats are out of gas. Martin Peretz says liberalism is dying. Both articles should be read. They contain a lot of sound points. But there are other very telling reasons why the Democrats are in really serious trouble.
(I'm going to split this post here. Go down to the next one. I'm going to timestamp it earlier to keep it underneath.)
That's a mighty big pie in that sky. First, Kerry was chosen in the primaries specifically because he was deemed most electable. Looking at the sorry collection of contenders, he probably was. If he wasn't, that just adds another example to the long list establishing that Democrats have remarkably poor judgment. Second, George Bush is such a bad campaigner that his lack of political skill is considered one of his strengths as president. Third, the MSM pulled out all the stops in campaigning actively and relentlessly on behalf of Kerry. There isn't any more they can do. And as the alternative news network of talk radio, 527s, blogs, candidate and party web sites and informal e-mail networks continues to provide more and more voters with information which contradicts the spin from the MSM, that influence will diminish every year.
Finally, the advantage Democrats gain from vote fraud is likely to diminish as well. Keith Olbermann and the other inhabitants from the wacky nether regions of the left have done Republicans a great favor with their endless ranting about stolen elections. Coupled with the mountain of evidence over the last 3 election cycles that implicates Democrats in all kinds of election fraud, they have set the stage and helped make the case for voting reform especially strong. This will really hurt the Democrats.
So, the idea that the 2004 election results aren't that bad is pretty hollow. In fact, those results continued to confirm a trend of Republican gains at all levels of government. If the Democrats aren't in big trouble, why are the governors of New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota and California all Republicans? Why did it take vote fraud for the Democrats to grab the governor's mansion in a liberal state like Washington. Demographic trends show the red states getting stronger with every census. Even most of the blue states got less blue in the last election. Democrats are a collection of disparate special interests whose only unifying idea is that they passionately hate the GOP because they believe the GOP is evil. How is that going to forge a new majority party? What great cause are they going to build with -- gay marriage?
Michael Barone says the Democrats are out of gas. Martin Peretz says liberalism is dying. Both articles should be read. They contain a lot of sound points. But there are other very telling reasons why the Democrats are in really serious trouble.
(I'm going to split this post here. Go down to the next one. I'm going to timestamp it earlier to keep it underneath.)
posted by Stan at 3:54 PM
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