Another Premature Burial: Off Year Republican Victory Portrayed in Media as Huge Win for Democrats

Democrats and their friendly Fifth Column cohorts in the left-wing media are pronouncing the Bush Administration and the Republicans DOA as we approach the final month of 2005. With years of

accusations that Bush lied to get us into Iraq ringing in their ears, the public in polls puts the approval ratings of the President at their lowest level ever, even with a booming economy and low unemployment.

Liberals somehow seem convinced that the most successful military operation in our history is an abysmal failure.

Is George Orwell listening? If he isn’t, someone has learned his lessons well. What amazes the observor is how those Democrats who said that Iraq had to be purged of its weapons of mass destruction for a decade, now insist Bush lied about Iraq having had them. Can they continue to pull this off? It is dubious. You can fool some of the people….

Besides, the approval rating question is not the same question as an inquiry as to for whom the citizenry would vote. Neither do we know who the Democrat opponent will be in 2008, nor do we know who the Republican candidate will be. But then, Democrats have become adept at self-delusion.

What the media is hyping right now is that the ‘off’ off year elections of 2005 spell the death throes for the GOP. They proclaim it loudly throughout their programs. That, however, is just not what happened.

In New York City, a Republican has been elected Mayor for the fourth consecutive time! New York City!

Blumberg, like Giuliano before him may be liberal Republicans, but they are Republicans in a city that

has very few Republicans. Blumberg is wealthy, but that seems to be ignored when the press looks across the river. New Jersey, not quite as Democrat, but almost, elected Corzone Governor over a lackluster Republican opponent‘s campaign, and he spent tens of millions from his pocket to win.

The biggest blow may be said to be the loss of the gubernatorial race in Virginia by Republicans. But, the

Democrat won by only about 100,000 votes while Republicans won the other state wide campaigns on the ballot. Further, there is a pattern here that has seen Virginia elect a Governor of the opposite party of the President for decades now. But this is a severe blow to the Republicans. No, in fact, they did extremely well in Virginia in 2005.

Texas, meanwhile, voted overwhelmingly for a measure banning same-sex marriage, while California

voters (not exactly a GOP stronghold) voted down Arnold’s ballot proposals with immense influxes of union cash to do so, although the voters of San Diego returned the Mayor’s office to the GOP, even though in most of the state Republican voters in large numbers seem to have refrained from voting at all. . Ohio, too, recently thought to be a red flag zone for the Republicans, turned out to be not quite such a problem.

So, how does the media get away with it? They don’t. They are losing their ‘stars,’ and they are losing their audience with the loss of their credibility.