Victor Davis Hanson: Why the Democrats Won't Win

realclearpolitics.com ^ | June 22, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

[rightinthemiddle]

Hey, Tolik.

[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links: FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson 
His website: http://victorhanson.com/     NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp

[Tolik]

IBP!

[hershey]

Let's hope and pray VDH is right.

[rightinthemiddle]

It's a big moment for me...I'd like to thank my family, my wife, my high school baseball coach....

[rightinthemiddle]

You need to come over to the Rush threads...you'd be a welcome asset there.

[Tolik]

Thanks for the laughs, we need them sometimes, er, I mean always.

[Tolik]

Thanks. Rush is bigger than universe, I don't have enough mega-dittos...

[Sam Cree]

The Republican Party often seems to have no real guiding principles at all, while the Democrats obviously do have them. Only trouble is, the Democrats' principles are the wrong ones, the principles of the Left. A lot of people can see that, and they won't go for it. Besides the fact that anti Americanism is not so popular in the actual USA as the Dems seem to imagine. So I'm guardedly hopeful that Hanson is right on this.

[Bean Counter]

Here's the money quote from this piece:

"Finally, in the past, savvy Democrats understood the need for a conservative package for such liberal contents. To win the popular vote in presidential races, the formula was to nominate a Southern governor or senator - as in 1964, 1976, 1992, 1996 and 2000 - and then hope either for a Republican scandal such as Watergate or Iran-Contra, or a populist third-party conservative like Ross Perot."

That pretty much sums things up. If the Republicans/Conservatives can stay united, we can keep the 'Rats at bay. Fail in the Leadership, and the Republican Party will fail.

[FreedomPoster]

LOL!

Good summary analysis by VDH. We still need to work hard, from now until November. I'm in a hugely safe Republican Congressional district (GA 6th), and still had two Tom Price canvassers come by the house yesterday. I hope it's the same throughout the nation.

[JamesP81]

But when Americans get inside the voting booth, they probably will think the envisioned Democratic remedy is worse than the current perceived Republican disease.

The money quote. The R's could very well lose over immigration, but not on Iraq or gas prices (this last one is so ridiculous I can't believe he brought it up; anyone with a brain knows it's the market, not Bush).

That said, however, the dems are even worse on immigration than the R's (discounting the House. They seem to have their sanity about them and they are doing the Senate R's and Bush a big favor, even if they don't know it yet). Dem control would be a nightmare at this juncture of history.

That said, I will vote against any Senator or rep that supported the Senate amnesty bill. I will vote for those that didn't. This might mean the R's lose control of the senate, but the House is more important, IMO. That's where all the spending legislation starts.

[Pirate21]

I hope he's right. Unfortunately, his arguments assume that a large percentage of Democrats are discriminating enough to notice these things and progressive enough to stop knee-jerk, check-by-the-D voting.

Thanks for the ping.

[Tolik]

What is surprising is that elections ARE so close.

One of my favorite authors Arnold Kling of TCSDaily had an essay recently called Are You a Conservative? (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649142/posts) where he argues that many liberals do live their lives by what now is considered to be conservative standards, they just vote Democrat because of a habit, or idealistic utopian ideals of how they imagine things should have been.

[tobyhill]

So many words for such a simple answer, because the Rats are idiots!

[KC Burke]

Unfortunately, his arguments assume that a large percentage of Democrats are discriminating enough to notice these things and progressive enough to stop knee-jerk, check-by-the-D voting.

The proof that some are that discriminating is that Victor is, himself, a traditional Democrat.

[Grampa Dave]

The elite power critters of the DNC behave like inbred princes and princesses, who have no sense of reality nor common sense.

As the elite rats's MSM looses its hold/power over America, Americans get to see and hear these lunatics in action. This costs them more moderate votes everyday and makes us broken glass Republican voters.

[Pirate21]

...Victor is, himself, a traditional Democrat.

Hey, I didn't know that! Thanks. (Plus, that's very encouraging.)

[mirkwood]