Republicans Given Credit For Democratic Failure

Republicans Were Masters In the Race to Paint Alito

This overlong "analysis" article contains typical wrongheaded analysis by reporters too blinded by their ideology to see what's really going on.

They go into intimate detail how the process went forward, yet miss the overarching message of the nomination process: the Democrats already lost two elections because the judges issue and not enough of them were willing to risk re-election to make a point the public wasn't buying.

The Democrats have been crying wolf over every move made by the Bush administration, claiming that every nomination or proposed program will bring the sky crashing in on the country. People aren't buying it. After five years of Bush's presidency, they see that all of the apocalyptic talk from the other side of aisle has meant very little to their daily lives.

This president has faced more outrageous propaganda and outright slander than any in history, yet still his opponents fail to understand the obvious: their message has failed.

There might be a great number of people who are dissatisfied with the way things are. But they also recognize that the Democratic party and their army of special interest groups is not a viable alternative. No one is listening to them any more. They're even losing the most liberal to the Green Party and other splinter political factions.

While it may feel good for Republicans to gloat and read articles about how smart they were, they would be wise to understand the truth: they won because the Democrats lost before they ever took the field.