The Dems Will Lose

National Review ^ | 6/15/2006 | Michael Novak

[Uncledave]

Yes, we need to stay vigilant and work hard, yadda, yadda - but I agree with Novak.

[SmoothTalker]

The Dems really are a pathetic opposition party. We've handed them dozens of golden opportunities in the last few years and they are too stupid to capitalize. The best thing our party has going for it come November isn't anything we've done during our time in power, but the fact that our opponents are the Dem. Its a choice between the disappointing and the disastrous.

[randog]

This is the second "crystal ball" pundit prediction I've seen today. Looks like the season is ramping up.

[TSchmereL]

Not-Bob-But-Michael-Bump

[hsalaw]

The Democrats piqued too soon.

Nice pun!

[Uncledave]

This is the second "crystal ball" pundit prediction I've seen today. Looks like the season is ramping up.

Yeah, Dick Morris scried today that the GOP will lose big. Tradesports has the Senate GOP at 81.8, House GOP at 51.4

[NutCrackerBoy]

--- Michael Novak is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for progress in religion and the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. Novak’s own website is www.michaelnovak.net.

Democrats, as usual, banking too much on how much voters' perceptions agree with their own.

[A Troop 1-14 Cav]

No matter how much you hate the other side in politics, you still have to be able to articulate your position on the issues that affect Americans, not the issues you WISH Americans cared about. This IMHO is the dems main problem and will be until the pendulum swings back towards the Zell Miller/Harry Truman type of democrat....If they (Harry Reid and "Stretch" Pelosi) tell America what it is they honestly believe, while hooked up to a lie detector, they will lose every election from now until the end of time.

[KC_Conspirator]

After seeing Dick Morris predict the democrats would win in November, I am confident that despite the bad performance of the GOP, November is not going to be that bad.

[Disambiguator]

Dick Morris is like a "film" critic. Whatever he says, the opposite is correct.

[TSchmereL]

piqued, piqu·ing, piques

1. To cause to feel resentment or indignation. 2. To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity. 3. To pride (oneself): He piqued himself on his stylish attire.

ETYMOLOGY: French, a prick, irritation, from Old French, from piquer, to prick, from Vulgar Latin *piccre, ultimately of imitative origin.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Funny how Tradesports almost always gets it right.

[Uncledave]

whoops - thanks

[wizardoz]

Its a choice between the disappointing and the disastrous.

Perfectly put.

[firewalk]

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[samtheman]

sunny optimism

[hsalaw]

I think he was "punning" on the fact the dems have "peaked," that is, reached their maximum value, and everything is downhill from here for them: Main Entry: 2 peak Function: verb intransitive senses : to reach a maximum (as of capacity, value, or activity) -- often used with out transitive senses : to cause to come to a peak, point, or maximum

[Shermy]

Blah, blah....

It's simpler. It's not the Dems' ideas -- they have no ideas. This writer is creating, in effect, a strawman of substance when the real target is just straw.

[Waco]

The RATS are now blathering about a "new drection". But they won't tell us what it is. Typical. It's got something to do with some new moves or a Cha Cha to the Macarena I suspect.

[RonF]

Funny thing, but when you get on left-wing blogs and they get around to talking about what the strengths of the GOP are, the one thing that eventually comes up is "You may not believe in what they say, but you definitely believe that they believe it."