Apart from finding out that Barack Obama did far worse in
his re-election than nearly any other incumbent who won re-election, the only
thing that perked me up after Nov. 6 was coming across a Time magazine
published after the 2004 election, when George W. Bush won a second term.
In the mirror image of all the 2012 post-election analyses,
the Democrats were said to be finished, out of ideas, hopelessly unpopular.
It's like watching MSNBC, with the word "Democrats" replaced with
"Republicans."
Democrats had thrown everything they had into beating Bush,
crushing the Howard Dean wing of their party and running a moderate -- a Vietnam
veteran, no less! They had George Soros, Michael Moore and Code Pink working
like fiends to topple Bush.
Still, they lost to an incumbent. As Time noted, the
Democrats had "lost five of the past seven presidential elections."
But the pendulum swings. The Democrats came roaring back in
2006 and again in 2008. There's no reason Republicans can't do the same,
unburdened by having to run against an incumbent in 2016.
Unless Marco Rubio has his way.
The Democrats never change their ideas; they change the
voters. For decades, Democrats have been…
Source: Town Hall
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