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The Tide has Turned

Rich Galen

Monday November 14, 2005

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Earlier this month I wrote:

Mark November 1, 2005 on your calendar. It will turn out to be the date that the political tide in Washington began to turn.

I was right. As last week waned, Tuesday's results looked less and less like a Democratic victory; and more and more like the best they could do was a tie.

On Friday, both President Bush and I gave major speeches.

The President drew somewhat more national and international attention as he - finally - lashed out at the revisionist historians holding court in the Democratic cloakrooms in the US House and Senate over pre-war intelligence dealing with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

President Bush told a Veterans Day crowd that "it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war," he scolded the Nancy Pelosi/Ted Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party by saying, "The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges."

At my speech to the Ohio Republican Party in Columbus, there was outright glee as the Buckeye GOP celebrated the destruction of, according to Dan Balz of the Washington Post, an "effort to pass a package of political retooling measures in Ohio," by MoveOn.org and its principal donor George Soros who has spent millions of dollars backing Liberal causes - to no avail.

On Saturday the fundraising totals for the two National Committees were released showing that, in spite of the joyful trumpeting of poll numbers for President Bush by the Popular Press, it seems DNC Chairman HowWeird Dean has fallen woefully behind GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman in that very important race.

According to Chris Cillizza's Washington Post front pager, the DNC "is losing the fundraising race against Republicans by nearly 2 to 1 [$81.5 million - $42 million], a slow start that is stirring concern among strategists who worry that a cash shortage could hinder the party's competitiveness in next year's midterm elections."

Wait. What? I thought the United States was awash in disaffected Republicans and you couldn't hardly walk down a street without seeing dancing Democrats.

How can it be, then, that the GOP has $34 million in the bank and the DNC has less than $7 million? On that crucial metric, Mehlman's advantage over Dean is not 2 to 1 but nearly FIVE to one.

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On Saturday afternoon, during my weekly four minute Fox debate with Democrat Bob Beckel, he agreed that "not too much should be read into Tuesday's results." On Saturday night, I corrected John Kasich on his "Heartland" show on Fox that the President wasn't denying the pre-war WMD intel was wrong, he was denying that he - or anyone else - knew - it was wrong.

Then, to round out the week, on Sunday HowWeird Dean ducked a face-to-face appearance with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman on Meet the Press.

Dean's handlers are so fearful of the leader of the National Democratic Party that they have consistently refused to allow their boy to be on the set with Mehlman. According to Matt Drudge, just before the show began, Melhman gave Dean one last chance to appear with him:

"There's still time for us to go on together, Governor." Dean declined with a shrug of his shoulders and an uncomfortable cackle and then proceeded to walk away into the green room.

Roll up those pant legs, Luther, the tide has turned.

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