Groundhog Day

The Opinion Journal's John Fund examines the similarities between this year's campaign, an one from a few years back.

Says one Democratic consultant: "I would have called you crazy if in 1989 you would have told me that a decade and a half later this party was going to nominate Dukakis's lieutenant governor--another aloof Massachusetts liberal who would overconfidently feel he would mop the floor with this clueless guy named Bush. But I fear I've seen this movie, and it's 'Groundhog Day.' "
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Liberal journalists have started to pile on the Kerry campaign. "Kerry is Dukakis, after all," sighs Joe Klein of Time magazine. "Deadly dull, slow to respond, trapped in Democratic banality; he actually said he was for 'good jobs at good wages.' "

It seems the main problem of the Democratic Party is one of arrogance. They have convinced themselves that they are better and that anyone who does not recognize that is, in the words of Theresa Heinz Kerry, an "idiot". Turns out, people don't like being condescended to.