Karl Rove's Political Predictions For 2012

And all are possible because of this one: "In 2008, voters told the Pew Poll that they got more election information from the Internet than from daily newspapers. Next year, that advantage will grow as the Internet closes in on television as America's principal source of campaign news." 

Here is my favorite.

Scandals surrounding the now-bankrupt Solyndra, Fannie and Freddie, MF Global and administration insider deals still to emerge will metastasize, demolishing the president's image as a political outsider. By the election, the impression will harden that Mr. Obama is a modern Chicago-style patronage politician, using taxpayer dollars to reward political allies (like unions) and contributors (like Obama fund-raiser and Solyndra investor George Kaiser).

Does anybody believe that this would have percolated to the surface without the internet? The mainstream media would have buried this in the deepest hole they could find.

As appealing as it sounds, I'm not sure that I'm buying this one.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid or both will leave the Democratic leadership by the end of 2012.

Both of these people exist in a fantasy land of their own imaginations and neither is capable of confessing responsibility for the Democrats' hard times. Besides, Nancy Pelosi raises big bucks from the screwball left and, after Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leadership is Chuck Schumer (too weird for anyone outside of New York City and northern New Jersey) and Patty Murray (too stupid). I think that even most Democrats know that having one of these two as Senate Majority Leader would be catastrophic for the party.