I spent too many losing years in the weak on defense Democratic Party not to smell a GOP victory, especially when the Democrats, now boldly compete for the McGovern appeasement mantle, rather than obfuscate it with nuclear engineers and Massachusetts’s war medal winners.
I have spent plenty of bandwidth here, at Redstate
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/gamecock/2007/may/12/why_gamecock_is_certain_gop_will_win_in_2008
and at Race 4 2008
http://gamecock.townhall.com/g/52dad8be-d551-4a67-a309-64937fad0e63
refuting the unwarranted 2006 born doom and gloom and predicting victory for any Republican nominee over any Democrat nominee in the '08 presidential election.
I have been down this road before in the 80's and I look at 1972 and 2004 to reinforce my confidence. The fact is that no matter how far the GOP strays from its conservative principles in many areas, the Democrats insist on owning defeat in war. They simply refuse to deter enemies of the US that want to kill us all.
In 2004 when the Iraq War was going much worse than prior to the now succeeding surge; prior to the three Iraqi elections and Constitution ratification and 12 months after a 24/7 365 MSM Dem bushlied offensive, President Bush was re-elected in a landslide when Americans focused on him and the liberal with the global test, rather than the between election choice of Bush and an imaginary 20/20 hindsight perfect Caesar.
Let a liberal from the 60's remind us what the last McGovern did under circumstances much worse than today.
Richard Cohen, liberal columnist for The Washington Post gets it too, in today's How the GOP Could Win:
There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history. The polls tell you that with George Bush's approval ratings abysmally low; with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular; with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate; and with the party divided over immigration, social issues and even religion ( Mitt Romney's Mormonism), the next president is bound to be a Democrat. History begs to differ.
The history I have in mind is 1972. By the end of that year, 56,844 Americans had been killed in Vietnam, a war that almost no one thought could still be won and that no one could quite figure out how to end. Nevertheless, the winner in that year's presidential election was Richard M. Nixon. He won 49 of 50 states -- and the war, of course, went on. Just as it is hard to understand how the British ousted Winston Churchill after he had led them to victory in Europe in World War II, so it may be hard now to appreciate how Nixon won such a landslide while presiding over such a dismal war.
And let Cohen echo Gamecock's tale on McGovernization and 2004:
Maybe more to the point, most Americans did not endorse the way the Democrats would handle the war -- nor the way the antiwar movement was behaving. Nixon seized on those sentiments and, in a feat that historians will be challenged to explain, characterized George McGovern as something of a sissy. In fact, the Democratic presidential nominee was a genuine World War II hero, a B-24 pilot with 35 combat missions under his belt and a Distinguished Flying Cross on his chest. Nixon, in contrast, had served during the war but never saw combat. He had, however, seen the polls.
This is similar to what happened in the 2004 campaign. The Bush-Cheney ticket consisted of two Vietnam slackers. George W. Bush had served in the Air National Guard, and Dick Cheney had obtained five draft deferments. Their opponent was the much-decorated John Kerry-- Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Yet during the campaign, the Republican ticket and its allies in the Swift boat veterans movement managed to paint Kerry as a quivering liar. The character attack was so bold, so outrageous, that it of course worked.
Read it all,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501465.html
as Cohen comes close to predicting Democratic Party defeat and most definitely provides the GOP with a surefire blueprint for victory and see a previous Rooster Crowing on the subject:
Obama, Democrats are Out of the Mainstream Liberal McGovernites
Mike "Gamecock" DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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