A Boston Tea Party …(Worst Case)

Some of you are old enough to remember the Tootsie Pop commercial with the owl and turtle. In that commercial it was asked how many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie pop. I thought of this commercial today when I was thinking to myself how many lost elections it will take before the Democrats finally realize the path they are following is wrong?

Democrats believe they have only lost one election, the one in 2004. They feel the election is 2000 was stolen from them. For this hypothesis lets assume it was not (which it wasn’t). It is therefore inarguable that Republicans have continually gained in each election since 1994. There was a small blip on the radar, which caused Gingrich to lose his leadership spot in the House but over-all Republicans have continued to strengthen their majority since ’94. So the dilemma for any honest, inward thinking Democrat must be whether the party is on the right side of the issues or if they are just not articulating their views in a way the voter will agree.

As of now it is obvious to anyone the Democrats believe the latter. I often like to think what is the worst-case scenario of any situation so for sake of conversation lets assume they again are wrong. What if the next few elections continue to show increases in Republican votes? Will it take one more Presidential election loss, two more, three more, or 10 more before the Party of the Left realizes the public is not buying what they are selling? Can some intellectually “progressive” person ever believe others won’t eventually agree with him/her? It took the owl just three licks before he gave up and bit into the tootsie pop but I think those on the left would lick that tootsie pop forever. Give them credit they believe in their cause however since 1994 a majority of the public does not. Could they/would they ever believe in changing their platform? Could they/would they ever return to the Democratic Party pre-Vietnam?

It takes more than one November election to make a trend. Should Republicans lose any ground in the coming November election I would hope they would look inward and analyze why. After more than ten years of elections the Democrats still refuse to do so. The Alito confirmations reaffirm this. Call it stubbornness or ignorance but the failure to adjust will continue the trend. Elections come elections go and loss after loss they become more convinced they are right and the other side just lies. My hunch is they remain firm in their cause and just repackage it ala Hillary. Worst case, Republicans continue to win even when sometimes they don’t completely deserve too.