Welfare for Republicans

By Lisa Fabrizio
The American Spectator

Now that the holiday that dare not speak its name is in our collective rear-view mirror, it's that time of year when the political punditry turns their weary eyes to the future. And those who dominate the media are out of the gate early, chirping optimistically about liberal prospects in 2006 and beyond.

Their talking points are already out and the main message is this: Conservatives are stupid. Not only stupid, but dense, knuckle-dragging, thick-legged sheep who will submissively go wherever liberals want to lead them. So inept are they, that they are incapable of choosing their own presidential candidates.

I know this sounds strange coming from the Democrats -- who have been steadily losing elections for the past dozen years or so and most recently portrayed themselves as witless dupes when it came to endorsing the Iraq War -- but delusion has been their sole consolation of late.

One has only to watch the Sunday morning liberal love-fests to witness this strange phenomenon; a weird kind of reverse Schadenfreude whereby the left actually obtains enjoyment from its electoral losses by projecting its own self-defeating methods onto conservatives.