Monday, August 08, 2005

It’s Monday So …

... why not a little Mark Steyn?

Hackett was like a fast-forward rerun of the Kerry campaign. He was a veteran of the Iraq war, but he was anti-war, but he made solemn dignified patriotic commercials featuring respectful footage of President Bush and artfully neglecting to mention the candidate was a Democrat, but in livelier campaign venues he dismissed Bush as a “sonofabitch” and a “chicken hawk” who was “un-American” for questioning his patriotism.

And as usual this nearly winning strategy lost yet again—this time to a weak Republican candidate with a lot of problematic baggage. Insofar as I understand it, the official Democratic narrative is that Bush is a moron who’s nevertheless managed to steal two elections. Big deal. Up against this crowd, that’s looking like petty larceny. After the Ohio vote, Dem pollster Stan Greenberg declared that “one of the biggest doubts about Democrats is that they don’t stand for anything.” That might have passed muster two years ago. Alas, the party’s real problem is that increasingly there’s no doubt whatsoever about it.

It’s all good ...

Posted by Matt on 08/08 at 10:53 AM
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