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David Hogberg [The Netroots' Iraq Advantage] is not certain that Ned
Lamont's victory, that solidifies the far left's grip on the Democratic
Party, will bring them once again to the precipice as many
conservatives predict.
Sadly, the World War II
Generation is dying out, being replaced by the Baby Boomer Generation,
many of whose members are legends in their own minds. More importantly,
they are nowhere near as conservative on national security issues, and
they are less adverse to a candidate who wants to bring America's
troops home quickly.
If you don't agree with me, try this
thought experiment: Imagine that presidential candidate John Kerry had
somehow time-traveled back to 1972 and ran in place of George McGovern ...
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He postulates on how Kerry's 2004 campaign might have
fared in 1974, and finds a Kerry wipe-out on the scale of McGovern's -
not the 48% showing he received two years ago. I see this a bit
differently. Let's say that McGovern had the same
out-of-the-closet media in his corner that Kerry enjoyed in 2004.
Here's the cornerstone of my thesis.
MR. THOMAS: There's one other base here, the media. Let's talk a little
media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think
they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards I'm talking about the
establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and
Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to
be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going
to be worth maybe 15 points. Oh that Liberal Media
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While it's true that the '74 media were largely in the tank for
Ho-Ho-Ho-Chi-Minh, and against Nixon's involvement (in Lydon's war),
they did not go so far as to embargo everything negative about McGovern either, as they tried to do with Kerry. If you examine the 2004 season, I think you'll find
negative Kerry press came only after it had already been spread on the Internet, and talk radio. If Thomas was correct, and I suspect he was,
then 15 points added to McGovern's 37%,
has him winning a plurality, if not the White House in '74
</shudder>. That's testament to just how bad Kerry was, not how
we have changed as a nation. The FTC monitors Madison Avenue selling
soap; nobody controls the MSM.
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