Posted on 06/15/2006 9:49:34 AM PDT by Uncledave
The Dems Will Lose Fearless November 2006 predictions.
By Michael Novak
Just think how crushed the Left is going to be when they lose seats in the onrushing congressional elections this November. They have been so certain they would win big.
They have been blowing hot air.
Now, I remember when NRO editor Kathryn Lopez did not believe my prediction that Cardinal Ratzinger would be elected the new pope — and much earlier and more decisively than anyone was writing at the time. (I also remember that she still hasn’t bought me the lunch she promised then, in case I was, improbably, right.)
I remember, too, the hundreds of angry notes I received in August of 2004 when I wrote on NRO that, despite Democratic expectations of a great win, they would end up losing again to George Bush, this time by 3-4 percent. I also wrote that their anger would overwhelm them when that happened. Boy, it sure did.
My belief is that the Left has not yet learned the lessons of 1989. They have not learned that big government cannot make an economy inventive, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. The Left is still a party of, well, not quite socialists, but certainly a party of anti-capitalists. They haven’t learned a thing from Reagan, Thatcher, George W., and massive evidence all around the world. They still don’t understand why cutting tax rates ends up bringing in huge growths of tax revenues from the rich. They believe in punishing the rich. Republicans believe in letting the rich invent and risk and gain more income, from which the country gains twofold — first, by the jobs, inventions, and new national wealth that follow from that creativity and “animal spirits”; second, by the gusher of new tax revenues that come from soaking the rich the right way.
Today’s Democrats are wrong on the “people v. profits” populism they keep championing. They are wrong on “the people vs. the powerful” narrative that the resentment-filled Bob Shrum types keep foisting on them.
The Left no longer believes we should “pay any price, bear any burden” in the cause of liberty all around the world. The Left no longer believes in winning every war we get into. They no longer identify with the police or the grunts in the military — they identify with Butch Cassidy and Sundance. The Left has chosen to align itself with the chatterati and the glitterati and the rich, who make their money by selling illusions. The Left is filled up to here with illusions.
They call themselves the “reality-based community,” when in truth they are still living on scraps of the old illusions, from which they have never wakened.
The Left is going to lose — big — because they have nothing noble, nothing beautiful, nothing real, nothing true, with which to lead. They are the merchants of illusion. And a significant majority of Americans, although not all, see through them.
In a democratic election, however, it only takes a small majority to win. And the upcoming election of 2006 is not likely to be all that close.
The Democrats piqued too soon.
Just watch.
This is the second "crystal ball" pundit prediction I've seen today. Looks like the season is ramping up.
Not-Bob-But-Michael-Bump
Nice pun!
Yeah, Dick Morris scried today that the GOP will lose big. Tradesports has the Senate GOP at 81.8, House GOP at 51.4
Democrats, as usual, banking too much on how much voters' perceptions agree with their own.
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.
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.
Dick Morris is like a "film" critic. Whatever he says, the opposite is correct.
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.
Funny how Tradesports almost always gets it right.
whoops - thanks
Perfectly put.
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sunny optimism
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.
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.
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