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| A Democratic Party Disaster In The Offing? |
| 2006-06-09 |
| (original opinion) It seems that more factions are arising in the democratic party than exist in Islam. The animosities and alliances are increasing daily as we approach the mid-term elections. And ironically, the primary season for the next Presidential elections begins just a day after these elections, so they, too, figure into the confusion. To start with, the chairman of the DNC, Howard Dean, made it his priority to use the national parties' monies to rebuild the decrepit State parties. Several States had almost no paid party organization left, so he had little choice unless the democratic party was to just forfeit those States to the republicans. But that meant that the national parties' monies cannot be spent on the re-election of congressmen. They will have to raise their own money. This in turn means that they owe the party and its leadership NO loyalty in the elections, or even in congress. This is already happening, as not only have the Congressional Black Caucus spurned Nanci Pelosi and the other House Leader's request that William Jefferson step down from a less than critical committee seat; but just today, John Murtha announced that if the democratic party wins a majority in the House, he intends to run for House Majority Leader, which means he stands against both Minority Leader Pelosi and the Minority Whip. These two events show an open revolt in the House of Representatives by democrat congressmen. Hillary Clinton has already shown party disloyalty by contacting all of the major democratic party contributors and soliciting donations for herself instead of the party. In turn, she is trying to buy the loyalty of some of the poorer congressmen by giving them funds, in exchange for supporting her Presidential ambitions. If she announces, she will still need to do so almost immediately after being elected, with just a few weeks' grace. John Kerry has limited funds doled out by his wife, and so must go the traditional route of campaigning while fund-raising. He most likely hopes to run as Hillary's running mate, as otherwise her organization would already be trying to destroy him. Al Gore can lay low for the time being, as after his loss, he made friends with the owners of Google, and obtained a huge amount of stock prior to Google's IPO. He may have made several hundred million dollars, and so has no funding problems should he choose to run against Hillary. He is one of the democrats that bitterly hates her, so this is a strong possibility, if she announces. Of course, others may enter the primary race, but only with intent to run for a cabinet post, if the main contest is close. Christopher Dodd is one such also-ran, but may drain some of Kerry's New England support. Interestingly, comparisons are already being made between today and the democratic split at the party convention of 1968. Then, the traditional faction led by Hubert Humphrey surrendered to the radical faction led by George McGovern, resulting in electoral catastrophe. Today, the radical faction has re-emerged with the anti-war movement, backed by Moveon.org, the Daily Kos, and other such rabble, and they wish to overthrow the part of the democratic leadership with at least pretentions to moderation. They suffer a timing problem, as the next democratic national convention will not be for two more years. However, much manipulation can be done by Howard Dean, who is in their favor. This means that even though there is little chance of their winning with radical candidates opposed to traditional candidates in the mid-term primaries, they will try to run as many delegates to the national convention as possible, followed by a floor revolt to name a radical candidate for the next Presidential election. In the final analysis, a lid could be kept on this situation with a determined and disciplined leadership, with tight control over funding, and a willingness to force grudging alliances and party, if not candidate, loyalty. The democratic party has none of these things. So all must be resolved in a grotesque and bitter melee. And this is even before their first combat with the republicans. Wouldn't it be the greatest of ironies if they actually lost seats in the mid-term elections? Blamed, of course, on Karl Rove. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #6 What does one expect - even dedicated Lefty Netters/Bloggers are using the terms LEFTIST, LIBERAL and or SOCIALIST synonymously, to include vv DEMOCRAT. COMMUNIST, TOTALITARIAN, ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICAN, OWG-ist, and ASIANIST-EURASIANIST, etc. is still too nouveau avant-garde, too horribly anti-PC and Painful for Lefty use or admittance yet BUT ITS COMING. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-09 23:10 |
| #5 Maybe it will degenerate into Gaza style violence at the Dem convention. |
| Posted by: Uloter Unavique8739 2006-06-09 22:48 |
| #4 "an open revolt in the House of Representatives by democrat congressmen" Well, most of them are revolting.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-06-09 22:05 |
| #3 I love it when the enemy sick eat the unhealthy ..... think of it as 28 Days Later among one party.. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-09 21:10 |
| #2 I see so many parallels between the Dhimmicraps and the jihadis that it is mind-boggling. Each seems determined to implode - by crapping on the host country, LOL. |
| Posted by: Glavitch Angineter5765 2006-06-09 21:09 |
| #1 I dunno, 'Moose. Certainly, the Democrats richly deserve a catastrophe in opposing, and undermining, the WoT. But never underestimate the capacity of the Republicans-- especially this lot of sad sacks we've got now-- to do something mind-bogglingly boneheaded. But we can always hope. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-06-09 21:03 |