Pinkerton: GOP Will Win Because They're Not Dems

Newsday columnist James Pinkerton offers up-to-the-millisecond analysis of the two parties' prospects on November 2. His analysis is that most voters are pretty comfortable with the "big government conservatism" that has riled some traditional conservatives and continues to exclude the party of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson. So, he says, many analyists are cooling their predictions of an inevitably Democrat Congress.

In particular, Pinkerton cribs WaPo reporter Thomas B. Edsall's book, Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power :

The left-leaning Edsall is pessimistic about the "blue" party; he puts much of the blame for the donkey's decline on "the social-issue left," which "overwhelmingly sets the agenda of the Democratic Party."

Edsall is referring, of course, to the liberal lifestylers, liberationists and litigators who have sought to transform America, one court case at a time. It's the backlash against such trendy lefties, Edsall predicts, that will give the Republicans a "thin but durable" majority. So while election outcomes will undoubtedly blip back and forth, we might ask: Is there ever going to be a time when Americans are comfortable being governed by the ideologies embodied in Howard Dean, Barbra Streisand, Lawrence Tribe and George Soros? If the answer to that question is "no," the Republicans have good reason to be confident about their electoral future.

Gentle readers will recall that they've repeatedly read similar sentiments someplace else.