[fieldmarshaldj]

"While I haven't seen any polls yet on the subject, I would guess that something less than 10 percent of the American voting public would look forward to seeing the last two years of the Bush presidency consumed with a Democratic Party-controlled Congress trying to impeach the president during a time of war."

I'd say closer to 30%. Mr. Blankley underestimates the level of truly evil and stupid people currently registered to vote. Some of those troglodytes were on full display yesterday when the President visited here in Nashville.

[billhilly]

"I'd say closer to 30%."

You are right on the mark. In the early 70s I began closely watching the left wing and the underground press (that quaint sounding relic that evolved into mainstream media), primarily due to their anti war efforts, and my professional interests. That beginning piqued my interest enough to have taken notice of issues oriented public attitudes and in some ways quantify them. This was not scientific, however, it has been my observations over these past thirty five years that on hard idealogical issues, there is somewhere on average, 27-28% of the public who are activists on the left. They do not falter in their feelings, and they are the exclusive property of the democrats. From that base, the democrats have to cobble together either pluralities or majorities any way they can, which explains their accommodations to every kook cause in America.

The republican party is winning because there is a better informed base who basically are the traditionalists and producers in society.

Sadly, those 27-28 percent represent the majority of educators, writers, artists, news gatherers and dispensers, who call themselves journalists, and people who have depended on television for their sole source of information.

This obviously is just my opinion, based upon personal observation and professional experience. My tagline is also opinion.