Why it stinks to be a Democrat

Jonah Goldberg:

Of the myriad civic, legal and political lessons to be drawn from Thursday's assured vote to confirm Judge John Roberts as chief justice of the Supreme Court, the most glaring is how much it just plain stinks to be a Democrat these days.

George W. Bush is at his lowest approval level of his presidency, Iraq will not likely be a political winner for the foreseeable future, congressional Republicans are balking at his agenda and, in response, Bush is throwing money out the window as if he's afraid it might catch fire. Yet his thoroughly rich, white male nominee has passed with barely a scratch.

Obviously, much of this has to be chalked up to the merits of the candidate. He's smart. He's qualified. He looks as if there's not a grandmother in the USA today he hasn't helped carry groceries for.

In speech after speech, Democrats voting "no" said he was qualified, decent, brilliant, capable, nice, but they just couldn't do it. You got the sense John Kerry wanted to take Roberts to a nice restaurant and give the nominee the "it's not you, it's me" speech: Look, you're a great guy, and any country would be lucky to have you. I'm just not in a good place right now.

And that's about as good a description of what's going on with the Democrats as any out there.

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That is the message of the Democratic Party: "No more conciliation." Own your runtiness. Stand firmly and proudly for the ideals and principles of the base of your party, even if that accounts for only a quarter of the electorate.

While Bush's numbers are down the Democrat's nembers are not up and just about any Republican beats any Democrat in 2008. What has happened is that Democrats have wsted a lot of political capital in driving down the numbers of a guy who will never run for election again. How smart is that?

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