To be blunt: The Democrat Party as we know it will no longer exist in 20 years. Possibly 10 years.

Modern liberalism is in its death throes. I predict that Bush will win this fall’s election by a handy margin, and that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential run will be the last stand for modern leftists in this country. If they win 2008 they have a few more decades; if not, they’re toast.

Someone will of course take their place — perhaps Ross Perot’s party. Sorry Libertarians, I don’t think it’s gonna be you….

If I recall correctly, Hillary at the time was publicly saying that she was not considering running for president. I’ll admit I didn’t see Obama coming in to snatch the ticket from Hillary. Heh.

Anyways — The leftist implosion over Sarah Palin is quite a thing to see. The media keeps flinging shit, and are surprised when nothing sticks. Guys — here’s a hint — Your stories will get more traction if they’re…. oh, what’s that word… “true”.

“She tried to ban books” — No she didn’t. Funny how the list of books she wanted to ban includes books that didn’t exist at the time. Funny how it is in fact a well-known list of “books that have been banned somewhere, at some time, in the United States”.

“She supported the Bridge to Nowhere” — She shot down the Bridge at a point when both Obama and Biden still supported it.

“Can she been Vice Pres and still raise kids?” — Would anyone ever ask this if she were male? You’re showing your true colors there, Democrats. By the by, her husband is a full-time dad.

“She was a member of an Alaskan Separatist group” — Has anyone backed this up with anything? Anywhere? Buehler? I suspect the only “source” for this is anonymous — nobody seems to know where it came from.

“Other Republicans have denounced her, so she must be bad” — Yeah, the Republicans she opposed in winning the governorship. Oh no, her political opponent said something bad about her — it must be true!!?????

“She’s a religious zealot and has said that invading Iraq is ‘God’s Will’” — She said, in a church, that they all should pray that it is God’s will. There’s a big difference between saying “This is true” and “I hope this is true.” Charlie Gibson’s “exact words” quotation, and a few YouTube videos I’ve seen, all cut in in the middle of a sentence.

These are not a mistakes — they’re lies. In her case they are such bizarrely blatant lies that the public is catching on. Finally. It’s going to be an interesting two months.

[Update: This post was inspired by an article at American Digest]

[Update: Oh, you wanted a source? Here ya go.]

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We have Iran threatening to blow Israel off the map, we have riots in Pakistan over a bunch of cartoons, we have Al Gore bashing America while in Saudi Arabia, we have misuse of taxpayer funds given to Katrina victims, and the White House press corps thinks the top story is a 14 hour delay in telling them about a hunting accident??? And they wonder why so many of us think they’re irrelevant.

He missed one detail though: Apparently the press also thinks that two-year-old Abu Graib photos are important news. And of course they still won’t show us the news-making Mohammud cartoons, out of “respect for Islam”, but in reporting on the cartoons, they will show us “Madonna in Elephant Dung”, out of “respect for… errr… um…. uh… never mind”. It seems that my prediction is coming true — the media is indeed shedding the last vestiges of their claimed impartiality.

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“The Democrat Party as we know it will no longer exist in 20 years. Possibly 10 years. Modern liberalism is in its death throes.”

Lately, I’m starting to think that I was too generous in how much time I gave them. The confirmation of not one, but two Supreme Court justices in the last year is one hell of a blow to the moonbat wing of the Democratic party, but that is really just a part of a larger trend that has been growing for decades, but only truly come to a head in the last several months.

Today I ran across a great post by American Princess that does a pretty good job of illustrating the problem. The short version is: the extremists have seized control of the party.

[T]his is what happens when truth gives way to ideology. The left is so obsessed with being right and taking Bush down they have given in to absolutely mindless political stances and conspiratorial Republican motives – though luckily for America they are also much more comfortable about stating what they really believe. Note the latest “unveiling” so to speak, of journalist Joel Stein, making the case for what liberals should really be saying. Perhaps the Kos crusaders will find him more agreeable, because as Mark Steyn so accurately articulates “…Stein is a hawkish chicken, disdaining the weasel formulation too many anti-war folks take refuge in.”

Democrats have been trying to walk the national security tightrope for years, and now the far left is removing the net. We’ve got Cindy [Sheehan] running for office, Kos and company rooting out the true believers (amongst elected officials and journalists), while the remaining journalists are finding it easier – and perhaps in the near future almost necessary – to out themselves as blatantly anti-war. It really is shaping up to be the moonbat trifecta for the Democratic party – which most likely equals a loss for them come November.

There is a subtle point in that last paragraph that I almost missed — it seems the real leftist journalists may also commit mass career seppuku by shedding the last pretenses of impartiality.

I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again — as conservative as I tend to be, the breakdown of one of our major political parties is bad for the country in the long run, because it allows conservatives to become complacent and pay less attention to what the people actually want of them. Then again, the liberals have such a strong record of fighting against competition at every turn, it seems that they may finally be getting what they wished for — but not they way they wanted it.

Insta-update: I should restate that. If the Democratic party does implode, it will be bad for the country in the “medium” run. The damage will probably really begin about ten years after such implosion, and not stabilize until a couple decades after a new major party forms and has time to solidify its base.

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To be blunt: The Democrat Party as we know it will no longer exist in 20 years. Possibly 10 years.

Modern liberalism is in its death throes. I predict that Bush will win this fall’s election by a handy margin, and that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential run will be the last stand for modern leftists in this country. If they win 2008 they have a few more decades; if not, they’re toast.

Someone will of course take their place — perhaps Ross Perot’s party. Sorry Libertarians, I don’t think it’s gonna be you….

[Update: There is a follow-up post here]

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