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The looming fight for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party

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Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-10 11:51|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Influential figures on the party's left wing are planning a long-term campaign to move the Democrats to the left [after the election]...If the left's campaign is successful, it could transform the political landscape of the United States...

Yeah, by handing the government over to the Republicans for the next 50 years.

Don't miss the cabinet post for Howard Dean, plus the "right-wing media infrastructure".

Thus the threat of four more years of Bush may end up calling forth a genuine American left for the first time in a generation -- an ironic accomplishment for this most right-wing of presidents.

Uh huh. Look, you guys lose because Americans, generally speaking, hate your ideas. And when they don't hate your ideas, they hate you. They hate the pink-painted, Bushitler-shouting, dangly-bit-exhibiting, pot-smoking, tree-hugging, polyamorous moonbats sashaying up and down the streets of Berkeley. If you want to win, you've got to keep those folks under a blanket. It may not be faaaaaiiirrr, but it's true.

If, on the other hand, you figure this would compromise your iron integrity, I salute you. Just get used to losing.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-10 1:30:10 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-10-10 1:30:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Allow me to introduce you to an historical figure that pretty much sums up what is about to befall the democratic party when they lose big in November:

WIlliam Jennings Bryan

Posted by badanov 2004-10-10 1:34:00 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-10-10 1:34:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Clue No. 1 to Donks - you can only get close in elections when you lie and obscure your parties' leftist ideals and tax and spend mania. Kerry will be haunted by his pledge not to raise taxes

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-10 1:52:07 PM|| 2004-10-10 1:52:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 polyamorous moonbats sashaying up and down the streets of Berkeley

Go Angie!

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-10 2:03:53 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:03:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the central question nagging the Democrats: do they lose elections because they've wandered too far into the fever swamps of the Left? Or do they lose elections because they've become, as the author of this article apparently believes, "too much like Republicans"?

Sometimes I wonder if the "real" purpose of the Clinton impeachment was to drive the Democrats insane so they would start doing crazy shit that would cost them elections; if so, the tactic has succeeded (with a little help from the 2000 election fiasco) beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-10 2:22:57 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:22:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A leftist Dem party would be a permanent minority party commanding maybe 25% of the national vote and dominant only along four narrow axes: Cambridge-NYC-DC, LA/SF, Chicago-Detroit and Portland-Seattle. A party symbolized by Mikey Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Jimmah and Howard Dean would not be capable of winning single state house or senate seat between the Hudson River and the Sierra Nevadas.

In other words, the Dems would be most competitive in the states that are LOSING POPULATION, and increasingly less competitive in the states that are gaining population, electoral votes and congressional seats. These states are the bellwethers for America's political future: Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Texas.

Absolutely insane to argue that a party dominated by government employee unions, a demented Wall Street billionaire and a crackpot conspiracy-monger can win over a majority of voters in the high-growth, suburbanized, increasingly yuppie and anti-government core states.

Posted by lex 2004-10-10 2:45:44 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:45:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush/Rove should get to work Nov 3 to set about a serious immigration reform policy that could win over both hispanics and lower-income whites in the core high-growth border and western states mentioned above--esp Texas Calif and Florida, also CO AZ NV NM.

Anyone who can lock up these states' votes will have a lock on the White House and Congress for another quarter century.

Posted by lex 2004-10-10 2:49:25 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:49:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Go Angie!

I, personally, have nothing much against polyamorous moonbats as long as 1) they do their polyamorizing indoors, 2) they don't expect me to join in, and 3) I don't have to pay for their offspring.

But most people aren't as tolerant as I am, and if, when they think Democrat, they think "nekkid weirdos on parade", the Democrats are doomed.

It needn't be this way. The Republicans have a couple of weird cousins in their closets, too, but they do a better job of keeping them there. In fact, I'd say the Republicans have done a good job of alienating their weirder cousins, while the Democrats embrace theirs.

That's very loving and tolerant, I suppose. And the kiss of death. I say this as someone who has, over the years, voted Democrat over Republican at a rate of about 9:1.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-10 2:50:38 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-10-10 2:50:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Angie - you forgot "and don't frighten the horses." ;-)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 4:22:27 PM|| 2004-10-10 4:22:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ladies, you are positively poetic today. That image is going to wander through my nightmares and daydreams at least until the election.

And just think: with the way the kids as a group are heading rightward, some years from now we may see yard signs in Berkeley that say, "pink-painted, dangly-bit-exhibiting, pot-smoking, tree-hugging, sashaying polyamorous moonbats who try not to scare the horses FOR CONDI"

If I have to dream about it, I'm going to dream it my way!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-10 9:18:28 PM|| 2004-10-10 9:18:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 TW - ROFLMAO!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 9:43:34 PM|| 2004-10-10 9:43:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Heeeeey, be nice

Posted by polyamorous moonbat 2004-10-11 12:12:30 AM|| 2004-10-11 12:12:30 AM|| Front Page Top

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