By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report
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Now that the Democratic Party has apparently chosen its nominee for President, savvy liberal reporters like, Richard Cohen of The Washington Post are already writing pre-mortems, understanding (like Gamecock has crowed since 2006 re any likely leftist his former party was sure to choose and has crowed since 2007 when we discovered the Obamanation) that Barack Obama cannot and will not be elected President.

Of course the so-called mainstream media is in the tank for Barack Obama of 20-year pew-parked butt in the Trinity (Minister Farrakhan, Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger) United to hate white people and America Church fame, complete with hardball leg tinglings and cries of racism should anyone question, i.e. accurately quote campaign surrogates and advisors.

Speaking of cries of racism, Cohen is out early with the claim that Obama will lose due to the racism of the American (read white Republicans) people, (never mind that the best evidence they can offer is supposed racism in the DEMOCRAT primaries) but he slips up in the process and echoes Gamecock and Hugh Hewitt:

I acknowledge that some people can find nonracial reasons to vote against Obama — his youth, his inexperience, his uber-liberalism and, of course, his willingness to abide his minister’s admiration for a racist demagogue (Louis Farrakhan) until it was way, way too late. But for too many people, Obama is first and foremost a black man and is rejected for that reason alone. This is very sad.

Hugh Hewitt opines:

This is, of course, nonsense. Obama has won the nomination by running as a hard left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends. He will lose the general because he really is a hard-left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends.

What is going on here with Cohen?

Cohen is smarter than the average liberal, more objective and more concerned about his credibility. But make no mistake, the MSM is working off a template they have used since at least 1980 if not 1972.

Ever notice how most all of their between election polls show Democrats ahead until a few weeks or days before elections? Carter in ’80, Mondale in ’84, and Dukakis in ’88 all held large leads over the Republican that vanquished them. Gore and Kerry led as well in 2000 and 2004 respectively.

The MSM uses polls to try and make their wishes come true, but near the end they seek to rehabilitate their reputations with accurate polls.

Moreover, they never admit that Democrats lose because of their liberal policies and what passes for “values.” Oh no. They must never admit that their leftist God is impotent.

Hence, McGovern lost because Eagleton underwent shock therapy, and not because he wanted to lose a war.

Carter lost because Michael Deaver framed good photo ops and Reagan said “there he goes again”, and not because Carter wrecked the economy and lost Iran.

Mondale lost because Reagan joked that he would not hold Mondale’s “youth and inexperience against him”, and not because Mondale promised to raise taxes.

Dukakis lost because George H.W. Bush and Republicans (after Gore) put a black man’s face in a TV ad, and not because Dukakis opposed the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance by grammar school children.

Gore lost because the Supreme Court stole the election (via a lawsuit he filed after breaking America’s tradition of over 200 years of not reneging on a concession), not because he eschewed Clintonism, ran as a populist, had a personality breakdown in three debates and lost his own home state.

Kerry lost because he was “swift-boated” (eye-witness fellow military officers told the truth about Kerry’s publicity tour in ‘Nam), and not because he promised to subject American sovereignty to an “international test” and to give Osama bin Laden an O.J. Simpson-like trial, Judge Ito presiding.

No.

Liberals never lose because of the failure of the liberal policies, both foreign and domestic, for the last forty years.

No, it’s always a debate “moment” on TV, or another event, on TV.

What matters most is that liberalism not be discredited, what happens on TV is deemed significant and dispositive, and that Americans understand that they are racist, bigot, sexist homophobe rubes.

Americans are just too stupid to vote their best interests ya’ know.

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