The Anti-Bushites

As if the Michael Moores and Cindy Sheehans of the world were not proof enough, the left often demonstrates through their close association with national Democrats why much of America feels betrayed by the Democratic Party.

It's rather simplistic to reduce politics to a great battle between the Bush faction and the rest of the world, and this is one of the reasons I have always found the current fascination of the left with this particular President a net liability on their own part. But this is a style that the Democratic Party has adopted.

This President is not the be-all-and-end-all of American politics, any more than President Clinton was in his day. I say this as an acquaintance of someone who once told me, in hushed, emphatic tones, "If Clinton wins a second term, he will be the last President of the United States." And she believed it, as much as she believed that the Democrats were evil incarnate. I didn't take her seriously then, despite her claim to be a fellow conservative, and I had no reason to. By the same token, I don't take most the left seriously now.

I've previously written on why I think that the national Democrats are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans in all but their attempts to disparage the character of this President. The fact is that the Democrats now stand for the counsel of despair, rather than the counsel of optimism and hope. Once they begin to offer what many of them once offered, but no longer do, then they will have a better chance of success. And America will be better served when that happens.

It seems rather odd, but I have a feeling that Hillary Clinton will win the next Presidential election, unless a couple of things happen that don't seem to be on the horizon, and provided that she plays her cards right. Notice that Sen. Clinton does not play the "bash Bush" game; this is by design. I know her playbook, and I know how she intends to win. I've called the last several elections based on these instincts -- I even predicted that President Bush would win the Republican nomination when he first came on the national scene -- and as things stand, I think the next election is coming clearly in focus as well.

When and if Hillary Clinton wins, this might finally spell the end of the Anti-Bushite Party. One can only hope.