[DanTheAdmin]

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[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

More to the point, nobody who campaigns with Ben Affleck at his side has the right to call anybody an idiot.

Mark-Steyn-Is-a-Friggin'-Genius BTTT! :)

[asgardshill]

I'm reluctant to intrude on family grief, especially as the Dems are doing such a sterling job all by themselves.

The world saw the depth and breadth of how Democrats "mourn" at the Wellstone funeral. In every way that counts, Democrats are dog crap on the bottom of America's shoe.

[Angry Enough]

Vintage Steyn. Pop the cork.

[alloysteel]

Except for the excuses the Democrats come up with for losing, Mark Steyn says he could simply take a vacation every two years during the second week of November and re-run the column from two years earlier.

A broad explanation of why Democrats seem to be so set on losing every election: Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced.

[Lacey]

How many columns does Steyn churn out a week, or even day? Every time I turn around he's got a new, and always brilliant one! I wish I had his way with words.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

But Rock the Vote is non-partisan!
It says so on their website!
(major sarcasm)

[kittymyrib]

Ahhh...my first cup of coffee and another terrific Steyn piece. Thanks for posting this. It's a keeper!

[maryz]

It'd be easier just to take the second week in November off every two years and let my editors run the timeless classic whither-the-Democrats? column.

LOL! But don't! "Variations on a theme" is also timelessly classic!

[sirchtruth]

Man, he nails it! It ranckles me that dems don't get it. America is built on "vaules" and those values come from a creator who gives us inalienable rights. They've just abandoned that idea!

These selfish elitist ATHIEST who not only do not believe in God, but trash those that have now so infiltrated the dem party, it will be decades to flush them out, if the dem party even considers surviving.

[PGalt]

For many of us, the war is also a moral issue, and the Democrats are on the wrong side of it, standing not with the women voting proudly in Afghanistan's first election but with the amoral and corrupt U.N., the amoral and cynical Jacques Chirac, the amoral and revolting head-hackers whom Democratic Convention guest of honor Michael Moore described as Iraq's ''minutemen.''

Beautiful Mind

[ovrtaxt]

what does it mean when 22 percent of the electorate say their main concern was "moral issues"? Gay marriage? Abortion? Or is it something broader? For many of us, the war is also a moral issue,

That's precisely what they don't get.

[SkyPilot]

Great.

[deaconjim]

"More to the point, nobody who campaigns with Ben Affleck at his side has the right to call anybody an idiot. H. L. Mencken said that no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Well, George Soros, Barbra Streisand and a lot of their friends just did: The Kerry campaign and its supporters -- MoveOn.org, Rock The Vote, etc. -- were awash in bazillions of dollars, and what have they got to show for it? In this election, the plebs were more mature than the elites: They understood that war is never cost-free and that you don't run away because of a couple of setbacks; they did not accept that one jailhouse scandal should determine America's national security interest; they rejected the childish caricature of their president and paranoid ravings about Halliburton; they declined to have their vote rocked by Bruce Springsteen or any other pop culture poser. "

The problem is that the Dems don't care about the things they were campaigning on, they were just using those issues to hurt Bush. They only wanted the power of the Presidency to advance an agenda they couldn't talk about.

[DuncanWaring]

I could write columns this good.

"Why don't you do it?", you might ask.

Because it would take me about six months.

Steyn cranks 'em out every couple of days.

[OrioleFan]

Fly-over Country has spoken.

[Popman]

Bush Derangement Syndrome

Classic!

[libbylu]

just damn! good stuff.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are the Party Of Seinfeld. They ran on nothing and they're surprised they lost! The only message that reaches Middle American ears is "you're stoopid" and "f*ck Middle America." So the Left should not be surprised that Red State denizens return the favor in kind. Foul-mouthed know-nothings do not constitute a serious political party. Perhaps as Mark Steyn opined, they can nominate spring chicken Robert C. Byrd as their next presidential candidate and see more states turn Red. After all to liberals, nothing quite succeeds like failure.

[demlosers]

Another great Steyn article.