Why some left tactics backfire - Updated


Dick Morris has an insightful analysis
Yes, I know this one is from FrontPageMag. I'm pretty sure it will be published elsewhere in a couple of days, but in the meantime Dick Morris makes several good points.

Why do majorities support the Patriot Act and NSA wiretapping but oppose the war in Iraq? Because the true swing voters in politics today are isolationists, who vote with the Left on Iraq and with the Right on Homeland Security.

It is impossible to understand politics today without grasping the essential power of isolationism in our political community. The voters who rate Bush's performance in Iraq negatively or who call for a pullout are not, in the main, dedicated left-wingers or even Democrats. Rather, they're marching to the beat of a drummer never stilled in our political music — the desire for the rest of the world to go away.

The spokespeople for the Democratic Party and the antiwar movement may be leftists and even internationalists, but they represent a thin veneer atop a constituency that is far more isolationist than left-wing in its perspective and orientation.

This coalition of leftists and isolationists brought down the Vietnam War and serves as the mainstay of the opposition to the current war in Iraq.

Mr. Morris is right on this one I think. It is the isolationists who are more important than those on the left. Focusing on domestic left issues just drives the isolationists firmly into the Bush camp.

UPDATE - The same article made the New York Post and was referenced in OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web Today page.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - January 4, 2006 at 05:56 AM  Tag


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