A Hundred Battles

posted at 12:01 pm on January 20, 2010 by Doctor Zero
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If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. – Sun Tzu

It takes a while to digest monumental events, like the election of Scott Brown as the new Republican senator from Massachusetts last night. Initial responses are interesting because of the way they illuminate character. The Obama Administration has finally produced a shovel-ready job, as liberal spin doctors will spend the next few weeks burying the embarrassing performance of Democrats and their media allies from last night through this morning.

Last night, the media announced their discovery of an amazing new source of renewable energy: the Wave Of Anger, strong enough to carry a pickup truck, and the affable fellow trapped inside, from Wakefield, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. It wasn’t easy to write that narrative over the roars of laughter and music from Brown’s supporters, but the media remained stubbornly focused on the task. They’ll drop that action line over the next few days. When you keep telling people they’re irrational and angry, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, they respond by ignoring you. The dying liberal media includes too many terminally ill newspapers and cable-news shows to afford provoking ignorance from the vast and growing movement that celebrated its latest and greatest victory on Tuesday night.

Top Democrats have opened a window into the soul of a deeply sick party with their expressions of contempt for the voters. As related by Jammie Wearing Fool, Democrat congressman Anthony Weiner explained the stunning repudiation of the Obama agenda by saying “Most Americans don’t realize what we’re trying to do.” The meme about “bitter voters” is born from this same arrogance. Calling the people who voted for Scott Brown “bitter” is saying they’re not intellectually equipped to understand the magnificence of the Democrat agenda, so they resent the “sacrifices” they’re asked to make in the service of a celestial design they can’t appreciate. The truth is that Americans understand what the Democrats have been doing, all too well. They are recoiling from an agenda presented with the urgency, secrecy, and speed of a con job. No one with any common sense hangs around a shady used-car lot after the hard-charging salesman calls them an idiot for refusing to accept a deal whose details he refuses to discuss, for a clunker he won’t let them test-drive.

The reflexive tendency to portray themselves as helpless victims of the mighty George Bush perpetuates an image of weakness and confusion that independent voters find repellent. For example, Harry Reid greeted his new Senate colleague by croaking, “There is much work to do to address the problems Democrats inherited last year, and we plan to move full speed ahead.” This is suicidal for the Democrats. There’s nothing appealing about a party that plans to move full speed ahead without accepting responsibility for what it’s already done.

Ratcheting up class warfare and anti-business rhetoric won’t get the Democrats anywhere, either. David Plouffe, former manager of the Obama campaign, attempted to paint the GOP victory as the overture to their eventual defeat: “The Republicans have chosen their path: they are doing the bidding of insurance companies, just as they’re going to do with big banks as it relates to financial reform. We have a good health care plan and we need to pass that.” Those suffering through the Obama economy would prefer jobs from those insurance companies and big banks, instead of hoping for another extension of their unemployment benefits. It’s not as if they can migrate to the imaginary zip codes where all the “stimulus jobs” are being saved or created.

Scott Brown’s election begins a new chapter in a saga that is far from over. A hundred battles lie ahead, before voters have a chance to replace the ruinous President who made it possible for a Republican to succeed Ted Kennedy in a landslide victory. The GOP is far better positioned to win those battles than the Democrats, because they understand their enemy. The Democrats, on the other hand, are only just beginning to understand who their enemy is. They could gain that understanding by listening carefully to what popped out of their mouths in the first shocking moments after Scott Brown’s incredible victory. They can only succeed by defeating what they described as hateful, stupid, misogynist, and greedy last night. Their enemy is the American people.

Cross-posted at www.doczero.org.

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