Who do they think they're fooling?

George Neumayr discusses the current Democrat strategy in The American Spectator today. In his article, The Great Con, he outlines the underlying weakness in the party's attempt to appeal to more moderate voters.

The Democrats aren't taking advice from Zell Miller but from PT Barnum. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, Barnum said, though he might have revised that observation had he seen the big top of the modern Democratic Party, which is running into the problem Abraham Lincoln identified: you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Despite losing the last election because they are out of step with the majority of the voting pool on issues like "gay marriage, abortion and de facto pacifism", the Democrat leadership - Howard Dean in particular - seems to think that all they need to do is re-frame the debate for all the uneducated, knuckle-dragging bumpkins out in flyover country. As Neumayr points out:

This is what makes the con job of the Democrats so tricky. They are in effect asking Americans to suspend their common sense for the sake of destructive novelties and experiments against human nature. A used car salesman can only sell a malfunctioning car to a person once. Dean's talk of "changing" America -- which means changing it into a country Americans won't recognize or want to live in -- will only persuade the ignorant. And Dean can't even muster minimal charm for his supposed customers. He has started his sales pitch by bumptiously revealing his fundamental antipathy for a majority of Americans -- he declared that he "hates" everything that the "Republicans stand for."

"We don't need to apologize for our principles," he says. "We need to talk about them in a different way." Translation: let the great con begin.

It's still a variation of the same old argument the Dems keep making - "We're just not getting our message out".

Um, actually you are. And that's the big problem for most voters.

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