Death, Taxes, and Smears

Dennis Prager is right. He writes:

"We don't know who President George W. Bush will nominate to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But this is certain: Democrats will smear the nominee.

"It will not matter how personally honorable, how intellectually honest, how legally profound this nominee is. Indeed, the greater the individual, the greater the personal attacks will be."

Prager gives three reasons for this.

1) Democrats believe that conservatives by definition are bad people.

2) Democrats and others on the Left use smear as a political weapon to avoid challenging ideas and intellectual argument.

3) Having been unable to persuade the American public to adopt most of its policies, the Left has increasingly relied on the courts to do what the political process will not do.

Prager believes that "the Left's eggs are in the judicial basket. It knows: no liberal courts, no liberal agenda. When combined with moral contempt for conservatives and an inability to persuade the public, the Left must retain the Supreme Court at any price. And that price is the good name of good people."

His analysis is not only succinct; it's correct.

It won't be long before Bush returns from the G8 summit, names his choice for the Supreme Court, and the parties go to war.

Actually, the war has begun. The Left's smear machine is already in high gear, charging Bush with abusing his power and threatening him. Considering no nominee has been named, that proves Prager's theory--the Left is unhinged by its utter contempt for conservatives.

Bush's nominee to fill O'Connor's seat will surely be a good, highly qualified person. Nevertheless, that person will be vilified by the Left. You can count on it.

Add character assassination by Dems to death and taxes as the only sure things in life.

In the final analysis, they have no problem ripping good people to shreds because they have no sense of shame.