Talk show host and blogger Hugh Hewitt brings us this optimistic post in which he argues that the eruption of the Foley scandal brought the Democrats as close to electoral victory in this cycle as they are likely to get. And it's all downhill from here for the Dems because critical and dangerous world events have a way of intruding on the cloistered bubble of Democratic self-righteousness and the artificial outrage of The Elite Media Monoculture.
If memory serves, there is a famous quote from Churchill to the effect that "there are few things which are as exhilarating as being shot at without success". This week's test of an atomic weapon by the North Korean potato-head psychopath is indeed a shot across the bow of America and our allies. The Democrats seem to think that clinking champagne glasses with people who want to kill us and singing "kum-ba-yah" is somehow going to protect us from dangerous killers who lust for power. And that's giving the Democrats the benefit of the doubt that they do, in fact, actually recognize that these people are a danger. The hard left base doesn't seem to be able to perceive even this fact. For them it is America that is the enemy. After all, Victor Chavez and Noam Chomsky say so, and therefore it must be true.
But if the American public is paying attention, they will notice that there are many people in the world who are delighted at the prospect of American defeat, and that somehow the Democrats always seem to end up on their side. The reality is that the Democrats just don't take the current world situation seriously and they have no intellectual framework for dealing with the events which are rapidly unfolding around the world. Thus any vote for any Democrat is a vote for vulnerability and defeat.
It took 48 hours of loose nukes in the control of bad hair kooks to get the electorate refocused on the stakes in November's elections. But even before North Korea reminded the electorate of the wonders of Clinton-Albright era diplomacy, even as "The Path to 9/11" and The Looming Tower had done, the Foley effect had begun to dissipate as the reality of the choice before the country broke through even the MSM's fascination with the destruction of the Republicans because of the notorious IMs.
Now Santorum in Pennsylvania, DeWine in Ohio, and Corker in Tennessee have showed strong momentum to match that of Allen's in Virginia. Jim Talent will win in Missouri, but and Democratic nominee McCaskill's remarkable ability to churn out gaffes might make it a breakaway. Key Congressional candidates have the same momentum, as does Bob Beuprez in Colorado. Arnold out west and Charles Crist in Florida are crushing their Democratic opponents and with them, Democratic enthusiasm in those states.
To this mix we add increasing focus on the hard left politics of the Nancy Pelosi/John Murtha appeasement Democrats, and the unexpected assists intentional and unintentional received from folks like David Zucker and Jimmy Carter, respectively.
The timely return to the lists of Jimmy C. --original enabler of the Ayatollah Khomeni and shrewd poker player with Kim Jung Il-- is a special treat for Republicans, even better than Bill Clinton's FNC reprise of his best finger wagging moment. Dean has dealt with it, but I don't think even that fine post summarizes the impact of James Earl Carter on the nation's decision making when it comes to politics. His election was birthed in reaction to political scandal of course, and we got what we paid for, the very disasters that haunt us to this day.
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