Will we ever have another Democratic President?

I’m not sure that Democrats will ever elect another President. I know, I know, the debates are still coming up and I shouldn’t jump ahead but it just seems like the press is so utterly stupid.

Here’s what I’m saying. The press – which does lean liberal in any honest assessment, is the liberal movement’s own worst enemy. They turned on Clinton, a man of breathtaking political acumen and real love for his country who called himself a democrat and thought of himself as a liberal. He was savaged by the same press that claimed to love his ideals.

Then Dr. Howard Dean – championed as the reformer and cure for all things Bush, was then mocked and derided for a scream (that actually wasn’t) simply because he wasn’t perfect and didn’t have every answer down pat.

Now we see Kerry – which the left clearly and openly catered to for months while simultaneously over-emphasizing anything that went wrong in Iraq. Now when it seems like Kerry might lose, the left turns on Kerry like a lion on a crippled gazelle. Why?

I’m afraid its because, on the left, being first to condemn is always sexier than standing on principle.

Republicans, especially the paleocons, are extremely unhappy with much of Bush’s domestic agenda – and wary of Iraq. But they are not about to risk losing control of the agenda, i.e. the Presidency, the House, the news-cycle, whathaveyou, over it. I mean no way are they going to do that. Karl Rove, Gillespie, Karen Hughes – these people runs the show, it’s a governed thing. Centralized. No nonsense and no one off message. And because they all actually do believe in the President, and claim him as leader, even when they disagree.

Dems blow the subject like once a week. Every time something goes wrong in the campaign, they hire someone new. They pull dumb stunts, they refuse to respond when they should and choose to respond to the wrong things. It’s utterly decentralized and muddled. They are terrified that they will be associated with Kerry, and this fear is visible at 100-120 yards. It utterly undermines Kerry as a leader. I don't think Republicans need to do much at all from now on - the liberals, by jumping ship like rats, betray both their own cowardice, and the lack of faith they have in their candidate.

I may be overstating, but liberals consistently hoist themselves on their own petard, and there is little logic to it. It actually strikes me as quite depraved.


Another assessment.