Posted on 05/10/2013 7:46:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the Democrats’ most veteran strategists warns that the party is “in decline” and “at considerable risk” when President Barack Obama is no longer on the scene.
“Since Obama was elected President, the Democrats have lost nine governorships, 56 members of the House and two Senate seats,” Doug Sosnik, the political director in Bill Clinton’s White House, writes in a new memo.
While Republican branding problems get the lion’s share of attention, the Democratic Party’s favorability rating has declined by 15 points since Obama took power. A Pew Research Center survey this January showed that the Democratic Party was viewed favorably by 47 percent of Americans, down from 62 percent in Jan. 2009.
With the likelihood of gridlock and near-record-low confidence in public institutions, Sosnik expects 2014 to bring the fourth change election in the past eight years....
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It may be hard for people to understand, but Hillary is to the left of Obama and lacks his moral restraint./s
And here I was thinking the whole country has decided Communism is just peachy.
When a party blindly follows an incompetent fraudulent leader who is illegally in the White House and making stupid decisions of course their ratings go down.
If he were white he would already be gone.
His black side is the only thing keeping him there.
Blacks will vote for Obama if he was one of the Boston Bombers. Abortion loving women the same and of course the Hispanics.
Spot on, but the only conservatives who can take on a city would be disparaged as RINOs here. Chicago is ripe for a take over.
Of course, there is no “democrat” party per say. It’s the socialist party now.
It’s happening as we speak but it takes time.
...warns that the party is “in decline” and "at considerable risk” when President Barack Obama is no longer on the scene."Since Obama was elected President, the Democrats have lost nine governorships, 56 members of the House and two Senate seats,” Doug Sosnik, the political director in Bill Clinton’s White House, writes in a new memo.IOW, it's a nonsequitur -- Zero has been detrimental to the Demagogic Party's prospects.
Strange how suck-ups on "Meet the Press' aren't lamenting this - asking Republicans for suggestions on what dems could do to save their worthless hides...
I love all that fake 'oh so concerned' crap Liberals say when giving suggestions to Republicans...
Without reasonably fair and honest elections, nothing much else in politics matters!!!
Now if the 'Rat Party is so much in decline, it would appear that now is the time to push hard for repeal of the signature program of the Obama administration - Obamacare - before it really kicks in to destroy our economy and health next January. The Obamatons seem to be giving off signals that it's in trouble, so let's not let up with our charge to get rid of it. We'll never know if repeal can be done unless we make an all-out effort!
We need to better appreciate the tenth amendment and the principle of subsidiarity. I would never support a RINO on the federal side of the equation, but states and local governments are on the other side of the tenth amendment. If citizens want a larger government with more services at the city level, there is no reason a republican can't respond to that. What republicans should run on at the local level is good, effective government that is less corrupt. Whether at the federal or local level, we still need to be the more socially conservative though.
I am looking at cities like Detroit. If we can win back the rust belt and turn it around, we can win the cities all across the country and knock the democrats out of their power bases. Conditions are aligning to be better for us right now than in generations, as democrats have run cities into bankruptcy all over the country.
A race to the bottom! I think the Republicans are winning....
More good news for the sleaze in our WH:
Republicans need a bright person in every state who can do the same. I recall Republicans from Texas went by bus to Iowa just before that state caucus to “help out”. That was too late. A director needs to be chosen for each state and the qualification should NOT be because he/she is a good friend of someone. A director needs to have extensive computer skills and, yes, know how to do community organizing and teach others who work that state, that skill. I saw it work in Ohio due to a talented person making it happen.
Detroit cannot be taken by Republicans. When a voting majority of the population are dependent upon government handouts, they WILL vote for the party that promises to continue the goodies, and WILL NOT vote for the party that they suspect will end the gravy train.
In such a situation, the only solution is for the state (assuming it's not too far gone as well) to just let the city collapse into bankruptcy, appoint an emergency manager, and end all the practices that keep the parasites on the host.
Exactly! That’s why the Cloward-Piven Plan to destroy the US from within contained 2 major legal planks: Motor Voter to destroy the integrity of elections, and Community Reinvestment Act to destroy the integrity of the financial system. Those are the only legal actions Barack Obama used his Saudi-funded and Ayers-supported Harvard law degree for. Obviously they consider it critical to the plan.
And it is. They can do anything they want if they can steal elections. The whole system of accountability is gone, and absolute power means absolute corruption.
We have GOT to take this seriously and do something about it, or there is no coming back for America.
We are a cycle or two away from that reality. ..
What you are saying is that the problem will fix itself, and I am saying we can capitalize on it. Local governments can't print money, they have to live in reality. They are running out of other people's money, and if we demonstrate, like Governor Perry in Texas, like mayor Guliani in New York , that we govern prudently and effectively, we can offer an alternative to the forty year decline. The gravy train MUST end eventually, and not too far from now. If we are ready, we can capitalize on it.
What we need to do, is bring back US jobs.
Stop sending jobs elsewhere, then spending all our money supporting people who do not have jobs.
STOP IMPORTING EVERYTHING.
The news media will bring forth some unknown person and annoint him/her as the “one” just like they did with Obama, because they knew Hillary couldn’t win.
Everyone keeps talking about Hillary being the strong candidate for the next Dem Nominee, but I see no evidence that she actually improved her likability or her ability to be elected. Too many people just don’t like her.
Wonder if Boehner and friends will take notice of it and charge her with articles of impeachment. She's dissing Congress in a most blatantly extraconstitutional way!
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