November 06, 2006

THE RACE THAT COUNTS MOST: LIEBERMAN VS.THE ANTI-SEMITES

        Horsefeathers regards the pseudo-science of polling as mainly a way for the media to transform politics into something exciting, like horse racing. We all love predictions; that's why fortune tellers make more money than shrinks. They give the illusion of knowledge and control where it doesn't exist. Pollsters are as accurate as stock market gurus-- and as forgetful. When they're wrong they just move on, reputations intact, to the next set of predictions. If they're lucky enough to make an accurate call they trumpet their great foresight, when it's actually pure chance. If 100 people are asked to call a coin toss, the one person who gets it right 10 times in a row will be proclaimed a genius---if he's a stock market guru or a political pundit.
        That said, Horsefeathers will not be surprised if the Democrats do well in tomorrow's elections. History suggests they should. Parties in power become complacent over time, and voters want something new. The problem is the Democrats offer nothing new in the way of solutions to problems; instead they offer tantrums and denial. However, if the MSM and the rage-filled infantile liberals do drag the Dems over the finish line first, it won't save them. They remain a party devoid of ideas. Whining and proclaiming your superiority can only get you so far. When the Islamo-fascists start blowing up buildings and beheading our countrymen, the adults step in. The very success of the Bush administration in preventing another 9-11 has paradoxically allowed the childish mindset of contemporary liberals to reassert itself. They forget how we all expected more attacks following 9-11, and they now minimize the 'gathering storm' by focusing on the hated Bush and the evil neo-Cons. They tell each other how smart they are because they read Tom Friedman, and how morally superior they are because they march for peace.
        If their recent nominee for President, John Kerry, were half as smart as he imagines he is, he'd have read Tommy and known enough to keep his mouth shut. Kipling's insight remains true as ever; the wordsmith elites who disdain them, will cower behind the warriors when the shooting starts: "...For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"/ But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot..."
        As far as we're concerned the most important race this election season, is for Senator in Connecticut. This is because it is the vote whose outcome transcends petty day-to-day politics. When utopian dreams prove unattainable, scapegoats are necessary and Jews become targets. Joe Lieberman has been subjected to open and vile Jew hatred from the army of left utopians who dumped him in favor of Ned Lamont. Lamont has welcomed the support of the Jew haters, taken their money and appeared at rallies denouncing Israel. Should he prevail in tomorrow's race, it will validate the scapegoating tactic. The Democratic party is already in financial thrall to the Jew loathing George Soros, and is home to such anti-semites as Jimmy Carter, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. How fitting that the grandson of Corliss Lamont, wealthy apologist for Stalin, would help the Democratic party become the home for those carrying forward Stalin's war against the Jews. We'll be hoping for a Lieberman win.