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2004-10-10 Home Front: Politix

Left Aims to Take Over Dem Party - No Matter Who Wins Election

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 2:12:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, hell - I see Dave D beat me to it. Sorry, Dave, didn't see yours.

Editors, please delete mine.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 2:14:23 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:14:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is interesting. Doctrinally, JK is *the* most left of the lefties. So what are the radicals *really* proposing? In other words, are they willing to abandon socialism for what amounts to anarchy? That is, whoever can stimulate the herd to stampede in whatever direction is the new leader, until they run into an obstacle. At this point, the cease to be a political party, except clenching the bones of the old organization. Something has to give: they have lost the Presidency, the Congress, the Governorships, and even the State houses. Except for pockets of the bureaucracy from which they are being excised like little planar warts, they have nothing left.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-10 2:57:01 PM|| 2004-10-10 2:57:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 So stupid, really: a hawkish centrist or even a hawkish liberal would win this election easily. Kerry could have trounced Bush merely by running to Bush's RIGHT on Iraq, Iran, the jihadists, because at bottom this is a war to defend liberal wesetern civilization against a fascist enemy. Hitchens, Paul Berman and a handful of others get it, but the vast majority of the Deanie/Mikey/Jimmah idiotarians do not.

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 3:05:16 PM|| 2004-10-10 3:05:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It would be nice if some grown-ups took over the Democratic party. I rather like the idea of having a functional two (or more) party system.

Of course, I must admit I would enjoy the hideous spectacle of the Dems running Al Sharpton for President. Not sure who they could chose as V.P for 'balance', though. Pelosi? Boxer?

Posted by SteveS 2004-10-10 4:19:26 PM|| 2004-10-10 4:19:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 defend liberal wesetern civilization against a fascist enemy

ummm... Lex. The LLL doesn't like liberal wesgtern civilization.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-10 5:21:51 PM|| 2004-10-10 5:21:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 'Opie' Edwards was being interviewed on the Fox News Sunday show.

He was not laughing non-stop and treating everything as a joke, in fact seemed really fed up with being put on the carpet by Fox's Chris Wallace, who did not back down on the issue of the 'entire' the new WMD report, which Opie tried to duck.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-10 6:00:34 PM|| 2004-10-10 6:00:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The far left Monied MoonBats can try. They have the $$$ and more than a few Dems are seasoned Political Whores. Who'll hike up their skirts and lie back. While others in fly-over states defect to the Republican party.

Jack.

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-10-10 7:01:50 PM|| 2004-10-10 7:01:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought the Democratic Party was taken over by the leftwing wingnuts long ago. What would a further left party look like. I mean to the left of Kerry, Kennedy, and Clinton. That is pretty weird to think about. Members will be channeling Jim Jones or Charlie Manson???

Posted by A. Bungfodder 2004-10-10 11:29:39 PM|| 2004-10-10 11:29:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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