[Pokey78]

[Pokey78]

Missouri = Mississippi. So Steyn's not perfect.

[Akira]

The American electorate is "polarised" in the sense that a seesaw would be with Kate Moss at one end and me at the other.

Steyn rules. Thanks Pokey...

[TontoKowalski]

In the President's speech last Thursday, the bit I liked best was this, because I've been saying it myself for two years: "Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe - because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."

That's a beautiful quotation. "Stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty." That will be on the cornerstone of an impressive monument one day.

[Gritty]

BTTT for The Master!

[McGavin999]

This is going to scare the europeans to death. They were really hoping we'd be dumb enough to elect another Clinton. Too bad europe.

[EDINVA]

Steyn has the same firm grasp on Mississippi/Missouri as the American Dems

[My2Cents]

"typical voters" (choreographers of environmentalist dance companies, etc)

ROFL!!!...Steyn's the best.

[tet68]

Steyn Bump!

God, the man has a way with words!

The Daily Telegraph, in a curious editorial that sounded as if my colleagues had been up all night snorting Democratic talking points

Bwahahahaha!

[Plutarch]

I wonder if the British readers of the Telegraph understand our politics and media enough to comprehend the truth of Steyn's points.

The usual writing from a British perspective betrays a lack of understanding. Their view is obscured by the cultural fog drifting in from the Continent.

[tet68]

- because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."

That's essentially a cultural argument, and one artfully in tune both with white rural male gun nuts who resent Democratic predations on their own liberty and with newer, younger, 9/11 Republican converts who think the way to stop Islamic terrorism is to fix the problem at source. And the pretzel contortions of the Democratic candidates can't match it.

Oddly enough,"stability purchased at the expense of Liberty"
was a sentiment our founding fathers found distasteful also.

"Is Life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!" ~Patrick Henry.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Chris Matthews said yesterday that Southern white males vote Republican because they are still pissed about events in the 60's.

At their own peril, The Dems choose to ignore the fact that it is really because their organization is consistently anti white 'successful' male.

Why would this group vote Democrat?

[Kay Soze]

Because of the net and the cable there are now too many soruces of news available.

And logic is not on their side only emotion.

[Southack]

"... the change in voter identification since September 11 is all in one direction - Florida: Republicans up six points; Minnesota: Republicans up eight points; Michigan: Republicans up nine points; Iowa: Republicans up 12 points; Arkansas (home of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library): Republicans up 15 points."

The voter rolls are just one of numerous trends currently going against the Dems. Another such trend is in fundraising. Their time has come and gone. What do they have to show for it?

[Timesink]

What happened to Beebwatch?

[mc5cents]

Well, it's true even Democrats can find good news if they know where to look. In my town in New Hampshire, a Democrat neighbour recently got elected cemetery commissioner, which may prove useful experience, the way things are going for her party.

LOL!! Mark Steyn you are BEEEE YOUUU TEEE FULL!!

[Agnes Heep]

With liberals, the image is everything. So it doesn't really matter to them if they're getting their butts kicked, as long as those polls look good.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[nicmarlo]

"Despite losing three governorships in the past month, Democrats continue to insist that their strategy of running every election as a referendum on Bush is working." Even if it costs them a fourth governorship in Louisiana this week.

And the Rats lost control of the legislature in New York in November 2003.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Oddly enough, all these non-trends seem to trend the same way:

The way that Mark plays with words is truly astounding...in every column I look for a good word play and, except for his ocassional 'inside British/ Canadian politics' parodies which I don't always 'get', I almost always find a remarkable play on words where he manages to use the topic word (such as 'trends') in a playful way that just tickles me...Ann Colter is pretty good at word play, too...they both make me thankful that I'm on the right side.