Democrat Meme Of The Day

It looks like this 24-hour delay of information following Dick Cheney's hunting accident is the latest in a long line of news stories that the Left is convincing themselves will be the stake in the heart of the Bush Administration. And, as with all the others, they're working it up in their own minds as a huge deal. The rest of America, however, doesn't share their passion.

Mickey Kaus comments on this strange phenomenon in Slate. The catalyst for his post is the myth that "Brokeback Mountain" is somehow sweeping the Red-State rich heartland (a duplication of the "Fahrenheit 9/11 is sweeping the heartland" meme of 2004):

Much of Democratic politics seems to now consist of embracing and fanning similarly comforting, but ultimately deceptive, liberal memes [Kaus' emphasis]. Enron has fatally damaged Bush, Abu Ghraib has fatally damaged Bush, Katrina has fatally damaged Bush, Abramoff has fatally damaged Bush, the Plame investigation will fatally damage Bush--you can catch the latest allegedly devastating issue every day on Huffington Post or Daily Kos (and frequently in the NYT). If you believe the hype--if you don't compare Michael Moore's box office with Mel Gibson's box office, in effect--you'll believe that Democrats don't need to change to win. They just need to push all these hot memes forcefully. If you don't believe the hype--if you think that netroots Dems are too often like the Iraqi Sunnis who think they're a majority--you'll look for a Bill Clinton-like alternative with greater red-state appeal.

The buzz being generated by the Lefty fever-swamp over this current hunting accident story is another example of how "Bush Derangement Syndrome" causes the Democrat base to so misjudge the situation that they get carried away, convinced of the validity of their own bogus hype.

Before Democrats go hog wild on some of these memes, they really should step back and ask themselves "how would a reasonable person react to this story?". Clearly on this hunting accident story the reasonable people of this country are scratching their heads over what the big deal is, if they're paying any close attention at all. Unfortunately for the Left, the perspective of a "reasonable person" is one they just don't seem to be capable of.

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