We’ve barely beaten this guy before, and the version we beat came without the prodigious rhetorical ability, the hundreds of millions in online donations, and a gilded racial Narrative for Chris Matthews and the rest of the media to get the giggles over.

I know it seemed close, but consider these facts:

1) The best the Democrat Presidential Candidates have been able to do in the last 40 years was 50.1% of the popular vote…for Jimmy Carter!

2) Just under four years ago, George W. Bush got a larger percentage of the popular vote than any Democrat has received since LBJ in 1964.

3) If you discount 1964 (I do, because the country was looking for stability in the wake of the JFK assassination) then you have to go all the way back to FDR in 1944 to find a Democrat who got more than the 50.7% that George W. Bush got in 2004. In the last 100 years, only two Democrats (FDR & LBJ) got a greater percentage of the popular vote than our born-again Christian, pro-life President George W. Bush got in 2004.

4) Hillary hasn’t quit yet. I don’t trust her to settle for VP. She will do something that ends up being detrimental to the Democrat party.

5) Republicans need to follow Mike Huckabee’s advice if they want to win this November:

“A lot if polls are showing that there are a number of evangelical white voters who are willing to go shopping this fall. They’re not necessarily just sold.”
He pointed to the recent special election in Mississippi that saw Republican Greg Davis lose to Democrat Travis Childers

“That was a very, very telling election,” he said. “The Democrat ran as a pro-life, pro-family, conservative Democrat. The Republican painted his opponent as a liberal and ran on economic issues alone. He ran a good campaign — he is pro-life — but he didn’t focus on that. He focused more on ‘my opponent is a liberal … and people we’re looking at this Democrat and they’re saying, ‘well, he’s pro-life, he’s pro-gun, he’s pro-God, that’s not ‘liberal.’ And so it hurt the credibility of the Republican and the Democrats are winning all over the country.”

Huckabee said that the Democrats have recruited “middle-of-the-road, right-of-center Democrats,” he said.

“They’re going after people that don’t scare the daylights out of traditional conservative people, and they’re running on the very platforms that the Republicans have had to themselves for the past 20 years.

“It’s a wake-up call to Republicans. Where we’re making a mistake is a lot of Republicans are saying, ‘we don’t want to talk about these family issues anymore.’

“Well, guess what? You’re going to keep getting beat, because that’s what got these people voting for you. Twenty years ago, these were Democrats who went Republican when the Democrats made a sharp left turn, and the Republicans were the only place pro-life people could be. Now the Democrats are beginning to come back to [the] center, and the Republicans are becoming libertarians. We’re losing elections in a grand way.”

Red Pill on June 4, 2008 at 5:56 PM