Posted on 12/27/2010 6:59:29 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Posted at 12:11 PM ET, 12/27/2010
Things the chattering class got wrong
By Jennifer Rubin
As 2010 draws to a close, the list of items going down the memory hole -- the place reserved for mistakes by liberal elites -- is long. Before they are gone for good, let's recount a few.
"The public will learn to love ObamaCare." The voters never have, and it remains more than a policy nightmare, with soaring costs and unintended consequences strewn about, a rallying cry for fiscal conservatives. It was a unifying force, but unfortunately for Democrats, it was the independents and conservatives who were bound together in common dislike of a massive new entitlement program.
"Republicans can't win because they are unpopular." In myriad formulations, liberal pundits and activists trotted out that line. It turns out what matters in a midterm election is how popular -- and successful -- the incumbent party is.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
And it wasn't just the liberals that got that one wrong.
My, I hope no poor unsuspecting rattlesnakes happen upon some of those folks. The bites could very well be fatal for the snakes.
The WP actually hired a real conservative blogger. I can’t imagine this lasting forever.
Can't you just feel the love?
Let’s hope that their bottom line stays at the bottom. That is the only way they keep her at WP. Every new reader helps improving the bottom line, whether he/she is a liberal or not.:-)
What is really frightening in the responses by the lefty types at the link is the visceral hatred of Rubin and Charles Krauthammer simply because they are Jews.
They use the code word “Neocon” instead of “k-—”, but the intent is clear.
We really are re-living the 1930s. That decade did not end well and I’m afraid this one won’t either.
2011 is around the corner and we’re told the Obamessiah has arisen again!
Oh really? Here the MSM goes making predictions even before we know what next year is going to be like.
In the words of Ronald Reagan, the centennial of whose birth we will be celebrating January 1st (HEY JIMROB, where’s the Ronald Reagan Centennial Tribute Home Page), “there they go again!”
Indeed.
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