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2005-12-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Jackal 2005-12-08 19:23|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ROFL!

Life's hard. And Dims discover, sooner or later, that it's a helluva lot harder when you're stupid.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-12-08 19:47|| 2005-12-08 19:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Setting up the flip-flop...

Man, is the VRWC diabolical or what.

Hey Pelosi, find that consensus yet?

Posted by Danking70 2005-12-08 19:49|| 2005-12-08 19:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear Santa: thank you for John Kerry, Nany Pelosi, Howard Dean, and the rest of the big-mouth, small-brain losers.

signed Karl Rove

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-08 20:30|| 2005-12-08 20:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect that the ad is less for public consumption, and more to both create alarm and despondency among the democrats, and to give a morale boost to the State republican parties at the same time.

That is, the actual ad will be tamer then the response to it before it even airs--the purpose of the leak.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-08 20:45|| 2005-12-08 20:45|| Front Page Top

#5 It ain't funny - ridiculing the democrats as white flag wavers. They really aren't the peace-at-any-cost-party or the totalitarian-peace party. They just act like they support Saddam and sympathize with al Quaeda cause it will them get elected. Now if that ain't beat all?

Posted by Hank 2005-12-08 21:01|| 2005-12-08 21:01|| Front Page Top

#6 They can't help it, its in their very nature.

Copperheads (Peace Democrats)

Although the Democratic party had broken apart in 1860, during the secession crisis Democrats in the North were generally more conciliatory toward the South than were Republicans. They called themselves Peace Democrats; their opponents called them Copperheads because some wore copper pennies as identifying badges.
A majority of Peace Democrats supported war to save the Union, but a strong and active minority asserted that the Republicans had provoked the South into secession; that the Republicans were waging the war in order to establish their own domination, suppress civil and states rights, and impose "racial equality"; and that military means had failed and would never restore the Union.
Peace Democrats were most numerous in the Midwest, a region that had traditionally distrusted the Northeast, where the Republican party was strongest, and that had economic and cultural ties with the South. The Lincoln administration's arbitrary treatment of dissenters caused great bitterness there. Above all, anti-abolitionist Midwesterners feared that emancipation would result in a great migration of blacks into their states.
As was true of the Democratic party as a whole, the influence of Peace Democrats varied with the fortunes of war. When things were going badly for the Union on the battlefield, larger numbers of people were willing to entertain the notion of making peace with the Confederacy. When things were going well, Peace Democrats could more easily be dismissed as defeatists. But no matter how the war progressed, Peace Democrats constantly had to defend themselves against charges of disloyalty. Revelations that a few had ties with secret organizations such as the Knights of the Golden Circle helped smear the rest.
The most prominent Copperhead leader was Clement L. Valladigham of Ohio, who headed the secret antiwar organization known as the Sons of Liberty. At the Democratic convention of 1864, where the influence of Peace Democrats reached its high point, Vallandigham persuaded the party to adopt a platform branding the war a failure, and some extreme Copperheads plotted armed uprisings. However, the Democratic presidential candidate, George B. McClellan, repudiated the Vallandigham platform, victories by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Phillip H. Sheridan assured Lincoln's reelection, and the plots came to nothing.
With the conclusion of the war in 1865 the Peace Democrats were thoroughly discredited. Most Northerners believed, not without reason, that Peace Democrats had prolonged war by encouraging the South to continue fighting in the hope thatthe North would abandon the struggle.
Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" Edited by Patricia L. Faust

Posted by Threarong Sholump2965 2005-12-08 21:04|| 2005-12-08 21:04|| Front Page Top

#7 #6: "some extreme Copperheads plotted armed uprisings"

Luckily, in this war we have the guns. And the modern-day ~~Kos kiddies~~ / ~~Moveon clowns~~ / ~~pussies~~ Copperheads don't. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-12-08 23:41|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-12-08 23:41|| Front Page Top

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