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2003-08-07 Home Front

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Posted by L.A. Silvestro 2003-08-07 12:03:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where's the link, or are you the new spammer du jour?

Posted by Raj 2003-8-7 12:07:43 AM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-8-7 12:07:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "It is the duty of the opposition to oppose." -- Winston Churchill.

Raj is right: link to news and don't use Rantburg to launch political screeds, be they from the right or the left. That's what comments are for :-)

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-7 12:18:54 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:18:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 What a LOAD-o-SHIT--incoherent babble--so much for newsworthy commentary

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-7 12:30:28 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:30:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dittos to Raj and SW. "This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no IndyMedia." But hey, I also believe in Mulligans. Give it another try.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-8-7 12:35:54 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:35:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 L.A. Silvestro must be new and not know the rules. Which are: posted items must be news, and any opinions are always in yellow. (Either the poster's snarky remarks scattered throughtout the news piece, or in commentary below.)

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-8-7 12:39:20 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:39:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 LA Silvestro has his head so far up his RepublicaN ASS hw can't read the rulz

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-7 1:08:25 AM|| 2003-8-7 1:08:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps this was not the correct forum, but LA is pointing to something that is going to gravely affect US politics for years to come. The Democrats are in danger of becoming an irrelavant force in politics. Drudge reports Ann Coulter's book is the #3 nonfiction best seller. Sgr. Styker recently posted a letter from one of our troops in the gulf expressing alot of the same sentiments. The meme is out there, and growing.

Do we want a one party nation if only by default?

Posted by Ben 2003-8-7 5:58:46 AM|| 2003-8-7 5:58:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I think you guys are counting out the Dems a bit too quickly. Remember there are *a lot* of people out there in America who believe 911 was America's own fault, etc etc. That's still a considerable force to draw from.

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-7 8:46:18 AM|| 2003-8-7 8:46:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ben--not to worry. The pendulum always swings one way or the other, and both parties will eventually gravitate towards the center to get the votes they really need. Even if the Dems self-destruct, another beast will rise in its place, not so much defined by what it believes in but by countering what the Republicans believe in.

Posted by Dar 2003-8-7 9:32:56 AM|| [http://users.stargate.net/~dsteckel/] 2003-8-7 9:32:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 And thus does NMM, by his very words, proves Mr. Silvestro's points: Heavy on carping and criticism, lite on alternatives.

My belief is that the Republican Party will split into moderate and conservative factions: Both Bush presidents were hardly conservative.

Posted by Ptah 2003-8-7 10:41:37 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-8-7 10:41:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 The Democrats are in the same place the Republicans were in 1998 or so during the impeachment deal. They will recover when someone with some new ideas comes along.

I would like to see Ptah's belief come true more or less. I'd like to see the moderate Republicans and moderate democrats form a third party and free themselves from their more extreme elements.

Posted by Yank 2003-8-7 11:10:21 AM|| 2003-8-7 11:10:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 In Bush's defense, Reagan couldn't control spending either -- he spent like a drunk sailor, forced by Tip O'Neill to accept unbounded increases in the Welfare State, but that doesn't diminish his conservative stature.

Posted by Brian 2003-8-7 12:27:00 PM|| 2003-8-7 12:27:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow, one minute I saw the post, the next minute, poof! :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-7 12:36:57 PM|| 2003-8-7 12:36:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 #sigh# Me-thinks that Mr. Silvestro was taking the "rant" part of Rantsburg a little-to-seriously! Of course, he's pretty much right on the money about the Dims - unfortunately, though, I don't think that they are going anywhere anytime soon. Oh, and NMM, you still haven't learned how to play nice yet. TRY AGAIN.

Posted by Secret Master 2003-8-7 12:54:36 PM|| [www.budgetwarrior.com] 2003-8-7 12:54:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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