Why Chris Matthews is Nearly Always Wrong

I'm not sure why I bothered watching Chris Matthews this morning; I guess it's the same reason drivers stop to see a car wreck on a highway - you know it looks awful, but you look anyway. The makeup of the show reminded me of why Matthews is always surprised when Bush gets his way and/or Democrats lose another battle. His panel consisted of 4 liberals: Katty Kay, Andrew Sullivan, Howard Fineman and some other lib female (I didn't care enough to get her name).

These...ahem... "experts" discussed a subject about which they know absolutely nothing: Republicans and Republican voters. The big problem is that these guests think and act like uninformed Europeans on American politics: they state their wishes and opinions as fact without providing any real knowledge of the subject. The reason the Euros were "shocked" and "dismayed" when Bush was re-elected is that no one bothered to tell them the truth about American opinion beforehand.

Matthews' panel discussed how Bolton would lose the nomination, Frist has no chance in 2008 because he is "pandering to the theocratic Right" and probably a few other topics on why the GOP is wrong (sorry, but my mind numbs after so much gibberish). The only thing that kept me watching was the joy I will feel when Matthews, et. al, despair about how their "analysis" could have been so wrong when all the panelists were in such complete agreement. If he wants to be right, Matthews needs to stick to a subject which he knows - Democrats - leave the rest to the GOP.