Why the left is losing to George Bush.

First, they're wrong on Iraq.

Second, they are so intent on preening for their fellow pseudointellectuals, that they forget that the audience aren't from Ivy League and West Coast faculties, nor are they all left-leaning journalists and news anchors.

Third, they parrot each other so often that they don't understand that to win an argument, you have to have logic on your side. Making fun of grammar and usage and niggling trivia is not argument.

Fourth, consistency counts. When you vote to give the president the authority to go to war in Iraq, and then keep harping that he hasn't made the case for war, you can't be taken seriously, no matter how much free media you get.

Last, compassion, sensitivity and marches on Washington won't disarm Saddam.