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2005-02-07 Home Front: Politix

Dems' Week from Hell - in a hole, and they keep digging

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Posted by Frank G 2005-02-07 12:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The problem with making "Bush Is Wrong" the sole plank of your party platform is that it leaves you ill-equipped to deal with those occasions on which Bush turns out to have been incontrovertibly, demonstrably right. I could imagine Nancy Pelosi's thought process about the Iraqi elections going something like this:

"We're really gonna slam Bush when the elections turn out to be a bloody mess and none of the Iraqis turn out to vote because they're terrified. The guys at the NYT have already shown me the articles. OK, let's get some popcorn and turn on CNN. First reports of light turnout, good, good. Oh shit! Oh shit!They're coming out. They're walking miles and carrying their crippled relatives to vote. They're bringing their kids with them. Where's Zarqawi when you need him, damn it! What's with this blue finger thing? Quick, run a focus group on the blue fingers! Whaddya mean, all the members of the focus group are up on their feet cheering? Don't they know that Bush is wrong?...."

Posted by Matt 2005-02-07 3:35:07 PM|| 2005-02-07 3:35:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Man, it really is like watching a prizefighter punch himself in the face, over and over and over again...

Fascinating, in a sick-making kind of way...

Posted by mojo 2005-02-07 5:18:08 PM|| 2005-02-07 5:18:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is one of a number of articles lately that really are making a point about the "message" of the Democratic Party. Just what is that message? The monied energy and the true believers of the party are hopelessly mired in the politics of the last century and the world view of the century before last. The party has morphed into a party of extreme leftist intellectuals who still see themselves in their old role as subverters of American efforts in the Cold War. The bulk of the rank and file Democratic voters are certain minority groups, victim groups like the feminists & the homosexuals, atheistic zealots, unions, and a few knee-jerk old-time liberals. The party is hopelessly extreme, and they know it. That is why they must try to fool voters to get their votes and that explains why they try to assume a different identity when it is time for the Democratic National Convention - and presto - you have Kerry saluting, reporting for duty and rambling about hunting down the terorists like dogs and killing them. In truth, they have no ideas. They are modern day reactionaries - "Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good ole days."

This country needs two strong parties. It needs a competition of ideas. But it is time for new ideas, and one of the parties wouldn't know a new idea hit them in their collective noses.

Does that sound like a call for the Pelosis, Kennedys, Kerrys, and Deans to step forward? I don't think so.

Posted by Sam 2005-02-07 5:27:30 PM|| 2005-02-07 5:27:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "They are modern day reactionaries - "Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good ole days."

And then FDR said we have nuttin to fear but fear itself. And then he set up the WPA, the CCC, the Tennesssee Valley Authority, and Social Security. And then LBJ came along, and we had the War on Poverty, and there was welfare, Head Start, more welfare, and 70% tax rates. And then Nixon won, but we had the Congress, and we had free sex, drug orgies, protesters, and demonstrations, and campus riots, and we won - er - I mean the communists won the Vietnam War, and we put the military and the CIA zealots in place. And then Carter noticed a malaise in the people, and this actor became president, and it has mostly been down hill since.

Posted by Hank 2005-02-07 5:54:20 PM|| 2005-02-07 5:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem for the dems is that they really have nothing that they really stand for. They are for everything that Bush is against. How can you capture the imaginations of voters and especially young people with these incessant rants and monologues from tired old leftists. A great person has the ability to step outside oneself and look back at what he is doing and where he is going. Lincoln comes to mind. There is nobody in the dem party that has the ability to do it. Nobody with the ability and charisma to lead. They're like the Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-07 10:47:21 PM|| 2005-02-07 10:47:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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