Liberals are just really out of touch when it comes to crime and punishment.

When you look back at elections where Democrats get beaten down, you can trace some of the reason to the public's frustration with the left being light on crime.

And when it comes to mandatory minimum sentences for heinous crimes, the public is overwhelmingly behind it. Take a look at when states put mandatory minimum sentencing on the ballot as propositions. These don't just win, they overwhelmingly win. I'm talking about like 85/15 margins. I saw several of them on California ballots over the years. Sadly, none had to do with rape, though.

The American people are pretty conservative as a whole when it comes to crime and punishment, especially major crime. Democrats have ignored this for decades, instead inserting their idealistic, pseudo-high-minded hippie ideas over what really constitutes justice.

The only good thing about this is that it gives conservatives a nice weapon to win elections.