Three months before an election that could be the toughest for Republicans since the Year of the Woman in 1992, too many conservatives are writing the Democrats off as “nutroots” or imagining that they are self-destructing.
Writes Dean Barnett on the Hugh Hewitt blog,
A rough conventional wisdom seems to be forming that if Ned Lamont wins tomorrow night, it will be disastrous for the Democratic Party.
He takes his cue from Lanny Davis who mourns that the supporters of Ned Lamont, the peace canididate running for the United States Senate seat of Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, are behaving like right-wing McCarthyites. And from Martin Peretz who mourns about the return of “peace” candidates of the kind that took the Democrats down to defeat in 1968 and 1972.
Then there is David Limbaugh who argues that even if Republicans are divided, the left is in worse shape.
This is dangerous stuff. The facts on the ground are that, to the average voter, it looks like things are going to hell in a handbasket. People are paying $3.00 per gallon for gasoline, and it happened on President Bush’s watch. The cheap ARM mortgages that people filled up on three years ago are exploding and it is happening on President Bush’s watch. And that is to say nothing about the “mess in Iraq” and the scary war between Hezbollah and Israel.
When the government appears to be losing control of events then it is time to vote for the other guys.
The Democrats are not going to implode, and the average voter is blissfully ignorant of the excesses of the left-wing “nutroots.” The polls show that about sixty percent of Americans think that Bush is doing a bad job, and nearly sixty percent think the economy is in the tank. And now the Prudoe oil field is falling apart.
The fact is that Republicans will be lucky to retain control of Congress this fall. Wishful thinking about Democratic implosion just makes the job harder.
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