All these Clintonites have no problem with their base thinking GW is an intellectual lightweight. But they know better -- they know, by now, that he's a formidable opponent, both intellectually and politically. And besides all that, NOTHING has gone their way politcally since he came into office, with the exception of the judicial fight.
In the last 30 days, he's made a surprise visit to Iraq where the troops were overjoyed to see him (upstaging Hillary) he's co-opted the Medicare issue and forced the Dems to oppose it, and now, Saddam is in custody. And she might be thinking, "WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO NEXT? PULL A RABBIT OUT OF A HAT?"
She thinks she's talking to a kindred spirit as Kondrake leans liberal. And maybe she was thinking out loud when she said it, in the form of, "What's he gonna do next -- do you think he's got Osama hidden away and will produce him just before the next election?"
I'm not saying that the above scenario is the way it actually happened. It's just a possibility.
The former is crystal clear a damned good thing to have; in the latter, though, the Dims are and have been living in a continual self-embarassment from their opposition to the war, to George Bush, their continually-falling-on-their-faces by claiming a steady litany of failures - only to have those same "failures" be proven untrue shortly thereafter. Think of it; they should be embarassed and ashamed for their position, yet they are too full of pride and arrogance to admit it, cut their losses... and continue to try and pass that blame onto us.
The irony??? that if they were to change tack, admit they were wrong, I truly believe the American People would respect that more, and they might actually start back on the path towards becoming a party for America. But how can you, I or any American with a lick of common sense seriously expect that the party of our superiors (for that is what they believe themselves to be; superior to us and therefore "most qualified" to govern us since we can't do it ourselves...) will ever listen, much less care, about We, the Great Unwashed???
So simple, so childish their behaviour... the very self-blame that they must still feel somewhere in the recesses of their collective mind is instead passed onto others when their stupidity gets thrown back in their faces.
Many conservative pundits have steadily been proclaiming that the Rats have staked their political fortunes upon a perverse hope of failure by Bush and by our troops, as evidenced by their...
1) Waiting for the economy to tank;
2) calling it a failure in our international outreach that nations actively hostile to our policies haven't been coddled to enough; accepting those hostile nation policies as de facto guidance for how the US should behave...
3) and the worst crime of all, betting on failure in war in which said failure clearly can only mean more deaths from the same troops that "they support"... (insert my fist-clenched, pace-quickened, tight-lipped rage here)
But they haven't listened (typical elitist leftist arrogance...), and when it happens Again-And-Again, they continually refuse to remove their collective heads from their asses.
Truly, there are none so blind as those who will not see. Except for Zell Miller and those of like mettle, I say Damn the whole Lot of them!
CGVet58