On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol said he is happy that Democrats are running political ads from a war on women angle as opposed to an economic one, as this will surely lead to their demise in the Senate.

"I think Republicans are going to win the Senate," Kristol said confidently. "I think they'll win it pretty comfortably."

The reason Democrats are in danger, Kristol argues, is by not running on "a more economic, populist message" and sticking to the platform of "upscale, single 27-year-old women [who] are going to be deprived of contraception by Republicans." The move is something he calls "silly and implausible." Meanwhile, Kristol added, President Obama is no help either and is only "dragging the Democrats down."

Kristol suggested that Democrats should have used a more "Romney-type attack" against the GOP. All in all, he says, "I'm happy the Democrats are going down this war on women road and not focusing on the economic/populist issue."

Panel guest and TV/radio host Tavis Smiley happened to agree with his more conservative counterpart. "That's a good point," he told Kristol.

Smiley spoke frankly about the lack of the black vote, especially in mid-term elections, and how that will contribute to losses for the Democrats who are relying on them but failing to entice them out to the polls:

The black vote is what the Democratic Party is relying upon now to save the Senate. News flash! If you're relying on the black vote in a midterm election -- and I'm not suggesting the black vote don't care about this -- but if you're relying on that vote, then I think it's uninspired because we have double- and triple-digit unemployment in the African-American community. And again, if the message is something other than employment and what we're going to do for you, then what's the reason to go vote?

Of course, there isn't triple-digit unemployment in the black community, but you get the point.