I didn’t say it. I don’t care what Democrats do. But Morton Kondracke has some advice for Dems in his latest column. He says that you liberals need to face reality, stop demonizing George Bush and start paying attention to people like me! 
Or something like that.
Right after the election, everywhere I went in D.C., I’d hear white yuppie liberals ranting about “fascist judges” and “self-righteous” Republicans and “holy rollers.” They weren’t self-conscious around me because they assumed I was one of them. You know…the skin color thing.
On the religion issue, Kondrake says:
Ordinary Americans overwhelmingly know they didn’t vote for Bush to tear down the wall between church and state. Mainly, they voted for him because they trusted him more to fight America’s enemies, who are real and menacing — and in no way resemble Bush.If liberals imagine Bush’s America to be a theocracy, they should take a field trip to Iran or the Sudan. Sorry, Taliban-dominated Afghanistan is no longer available.
Liberals need a little perspective on the whole theocracy fear, and Kondrake gives it to them straight. But let’s face it, we’re all relatively spoiled living in the free land of plenty, even us conservative Christians. We don’t know what real persecution is. The worst that happens to me is people talking about me behind my back. So what? Other Christians are getting their heads chopped off for professing Christ or being enslaved in the Sudan by “peaceful” Muslims. But I digress.
Kondrake says:
This post-election fulminating is of a piece with the pre-election Bush-hatred that led too many in the Democratic party to lionize the likes of Michael Moore, whose documentaries (see “Bowling for Columbine”) represent the United States as the violent, evil scourge of the Earth.
You mean to tell me that after losing the election, liberals are still talking about Michael Moore? You’re kidding. Can you imagine having someone like him speaking for you? Moving on:
The second level of reality avoidance that afflicts the party is a tendency to minimize its Nov. 2 loss. It’s true, Bush won the election by only 3.5 million votes, or 2.8 percent — the smallest popular-vote margin in a re-election victory ever and the second-smallest measured by electoral vote
I thought Kondrake was trying to be facetious here, but I guess not. For some reason, 3.5 million looks like a big number to me. You know why? Because it is.
The following paragraph is bad news for liberals, but good news for me:
From went on, “It’s important to understand that this is not a John Kerry or John Edwards phenomenon. This year was another chapter in a 40-year slide for the Democratic Party since the Lyndon Johnson landslide of 1964.”
More good news:
Contrary to optimists who predicted that Democrats were demographically destined to be America’s new majority party because of the growing importance of Latinos, educated women and urban professionals, Bush this time hiked his performance among Hispanics to 44 percent, lost women by just 3 percentage points and matched increases among “metro” voters with huge turnout in the exurbs, places often derided by liberals as the locus of “sprawl.”
I do love it so. If you libs think I’m gloating, think again. Bush has his own problems, you know. His determination to push amnesty for illegal aliens just might drive me to the Constitution Party!
I hope that cheered you up. 
