[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

[hershey]

Let's hope and pray VDH is right.

[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.

[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.

[tobyhill]

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

[mirkwood]

[sr4402]

Of course we will win, I voted for the war before I voted against it.

/Sarcasm off

[Ancesthntr]

It doesn't hurt the R's to have the contrast of 2 of our soldiers being horribly mutilated and beheaded only a couple of days before the D's proposed 2 separate bills in the Senate in favor of running away, errr, withdrawing. Oh, and finding 500 nerve gas bombs in Iraq doesn't hurt, either.

[jmaroneps37]

Another "expert" stops and smells the roses. I first said the rat would not win and would in fact lose seats, in an essay posted last Labor Day. Welcome Victor.

[Sam Cree]

I forgot to mention, don't you find it ironic that the Republican Pary is increasingly the party of the everyday guy, as evidenced by FR, while the Dem party has become the party of the super wealthy? After Bush was elected it was even common to hear very public complaints from Dems that the people with the money weren't running the country anymore, since the red staters had won.

[gridlock]

In Nov '06 the 'Pubbies will pick up 2 in the Senate and 4 in the House. You read it here first!

[goldstategop]

Interesting analysis because Victor Davis Hanson IS a Democrat. He thinks little of the current leadership of his party or what it wants to do. What the Democrats do want is to make things worse. That alone will be sufficient to induce voters to allow the GOP to retain control of Congress this fall.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")