Different Perspectives

SDB:

2000, Democrats: "We wuz robbed!"
2002, Democrats: "We wuz robbed again!"
2004, Democrats: "We wuz robbed yet again!"
2006, Republicans: "Bummer. Oh, well, we’ll do better next time."

Note that right-wing pundits and bloggers don’t seem to be fixating on voter fraud, despite documented evidence that the Democrats have been doing that kind of thing?  Note that Republican candidates who lost very narrowly gave in gracefully, without demanding recounts or resorting to the courts?  Why the difference?

I think it’s the basic Democrat culture of entitlement showing through.  Democrats were angry in 2000, 2002, and 2004 because they felt that they deserved to win.  Republicans don’t feel that anyone deserves anything.  They believe that all rewards have to be earned.

There’s another way of looking at this.  In 2000, 2002, and 2004, Democrats explained their defeat by looking to see what the Republicans had done to inflict defeat on the Democrats.  In 2006, the Republicans seem to be explaining their defeat by looking for all the ways they themselves loused up.  The Democrats are showing their investment in the cult of the victim.  They didn’t lose because of any fault or failure of their own; they lost because of the nefarious acts of villainous Republicans.