Friday, November 7, 2008

Hope, Change and Wishful Thinking

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A lot of hyperbole going up after Tuesday's election, and a lot of it from the Left sounds pretty ridiculous even to the untrained ear.

I've heard a lot of language as to how the Conservative/Republican/ "Neo-Con" (choose one) movement is dead and a lot of lefties are lined up to dance on its grave. Markos Moulitsas, of the Daily Kos, said before the election:

I've been making the case the last couple of weeks that we can't just focus on winning in November, but that we have an imperative to take advantage of a historic opportunity to break the conservative movement's backs and crush their spirits.



I pointed out that “Kos and the Kidz did not have their "spirits crushed" when Al Gore lost by a hanging chad in Florida, or when John "Reporting for duty" Kerry, Mike "Snoopy in a tank" Dukakis, Walter Mondull or any one of a long rogue's gallery of rejected liberals lost.

Yet the wishful thinking on the part of the Left continues apace. George Will noted that Goldwater, the Au standard for conservatism for many years, “…won sixteen fewer states and 122 fewer electoral votes than McCain…”, yet conservatism seemed to survive somehow.

To paraphrase the late, great Mark Twain: Reports of Conservatism’s Demise are greatly exaggerated! Anything else is simply "wishful thinking". Heh.

Cross posted at Say Anything

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