[Registered]

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[PhiKapMom]

This is a really good article -- thanks for posting!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

On the other hand, there needs to be a real examination among the party members as to why issues important to core Democrat constituencies prove to be losers nationally.

Bingo!

[eureka!]

FYI. Feel free to megaping John, this one has a lot of meat to chew on...

[mewzilla]

(Outside View commentaries are written for UPI by outside writers who specialize in issues of public interest.)

I guess the real question is why UPI would find this article to be in the public's interest?

[Registered]

some flags

[Prodigal Son]

Issues such as liberal attacks on the Boy Scouts, support for needle exchange in the inner city, and a reflexive hostility to U.S. military action are part and parcel of the modern Democratic Party.

This is going to get 'em every time as long as we have troops fighting.

[wayoverontheright]

The reality is that the collapse of the Democrats is part of a nearly 40-year-long process.

It took that long for the socialists of my generation to infiltrate and proceed to completely remake the party in their Marxist image, culminating with placing one of their own in the White House in 1992.

What's happening now is the result of the exposure of who they REALLY are by the NEW AXIS OF TRUTH, Fox News, talk radio and the internet.

[q_an_a]

from his mouth to God's ear. you can not debase the morals of a country and expect the people to embrace your position.

[Better to Be Lucky Than Good]

This article is a year old. The UPI guy has done a more recent update on the same topic. "Emerging Democrat Minority II" http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/11190000aaa020c2.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=POLITICS&Type=News&Filter=Politics

[js1138]

Here's a clue: Creating wealth is better than distributing it; creating opportunities is better than "equalizing" them; defending the constitution is better than ignoring it; promoting democracy is better than asserting moral equivalence.

[abner]

Issues such as liberal attacks on the Boy Scouts, support for needle exchange in the inner city, and a reflexive hostility to U.S. military action are part and parcel of the modern Democratic Party.

Repeat.... repeatedly... . repeat again...

[observer5]

"The challenge of repositioning their party so that it is more attractive to the American electorate is a difficult one."

Wonder why??? May be its the constellation of the stars?

[pbear8]

An excellent contribution but it wants another of your great works of art to help illustrate the situation. Perhaps small Ted and Hillary next to regular-sized Reps.

[DeFault User]

The sense that the party promotes the agendas of elite liberals, caters to minorities at the expense of equality of opportunity and fails to treat national security issues seriously undermines the electoral prospects of the party.

One of the best one sentence summaries I've read.

[dead]

The truth is that unless the party can convince the public to change its view on these issues, the decline of the party will continue.

Good luck to them in that effort, but I just don’t see a groundswell of support rising up for things like partial birth abortion, fisting classes in grade school, total disarmament of the citizenry, more confiscatory tax rates, government run health care, and slavery “reparations” to people who’ve never even met a slave.

[Hank Rearden]

Great, more Republicrat victories ahead.

More unrestrained spending. More pork-laden squandering of our money. More pandering to Welfare Farmers, Greedy Geezers and Big Steel.

No vetoes. More debt. Higher taxes.

What a wonderful future ahead. I can't wait.

[onyx]

Fabulous article --- fabulous post. What a perfect way to start the morning with a smile, a very big smile. :)

[Starrgaizr]

Truth has a funny way of rising to the surface, though the journey is sometimes turbulent. It is not enough for the Dems to "change their views" on some issue or another. They have, in fact, an entirely bankrupt political philosophy.

New Deal economics, spending to prosperity? A costly failure. "Urban renewal" and socialized housing? A scandalous and costly failure. Feel-good, self congratulatory pacifism? A deadly failure. Multiculturalism, all lifestyles as equally valid and moral? The freakshow of Michael Jackson is the result.

One can go on and on, but what exactly does the Democratic Party stand for? The rights of the oppressed? No! If the oppressed is not a unionized worker who happens to be a U.S. voter, let 'em starve and live in squalor. The environment? No, environmentalism in the hands of the Dems it is a ruse, hijacked by radicals who view all life on earth as more precious than what they see as illegitimate human encroachment.

Do the Dem's stand for peace? No, sadly, the Dems stand for surrender to everyone and anyone who hates the United States. In the 1970s only avowedly marxist campus radicals chanted on behalf of Fidel, the Sandinistas, the Salvadoran gueriilas, and the Ayatollah. Now, the entire Democratic party races to denounce US policy, so long as it is being run by a Republican administration.

So there it is -- the Dems have become... dictators. Seeking power merely for its own sake, for personal prestige, wealth, control, and Saddam-like glory. Clinton (or his stupid but ruthless wife) would have loved a statue of himself while he was president, and if the Dems had their way, in a few generations that would no longer shock anyone.

A party that cannot weed out of its nominating debates the joke candidates has become paralyzed by its own insincere philosphy -- one constantly chosen after poll-testing rather than driven by sound moral principles.

So, the future belongs to a healthy and vigorous debate between competing conservative approaches and flavors. The Dems will become the free-spending "compassionate conservatives" on domestic issues and leave radical politics to fringe parties and the Republicans will become even more conservative. Or the Dems will fade away.

But Americans will not long suffer a party that -- not too secretly -- celebrates American losses, tragedies and suffering for the partisan advantage it might bring if it happens on the Republicans' watch.

[little jeremiah]

Great article - very cheering!

[Fledermaus]

Ever notice how all the Dems advise "finding a message". What ever happened to principle and firm beliefs?

At least the GOP pretends to use those to further their ideals. Oh wait, Medicare drug plan, farm bills, pork spending, more money down the hole of education spending, no reform, bloated bureaucracies...

Nevermind!