Posted on 11/4/2004, 1:04:33 PM by Gucho
Stunned Dems ponder. . .What went wrong? What to do next? By David R. Guarino Read Guarino's Road to 1600 Blog Thursday, November 4, 2004
Flailing in disarray after resounding Election Day defeats, Democrats are struggling to regroup under new leadership they hope will get them back on track.
Roundly beaten by President Bush [related, bio], squeezed out of power again in Congress and facing voters hostile to their old-style politics, the party of FDR and JFK is looking for a savior.
One name is always at the top of the list: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady and current junior U.S. senator from New York.
Brookings Institution presidential scholar Stephen Hess says, ``Hillary Clinton is certainly going to fascinate the media and it will be a remarkable story - a former first lady seeking to be the first woman nominee of a major party in the United States.''
The buzz about Clinton as a White House contender in 2008 is certain to intensify, given the need for a leader Democrats can rally around.
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Set your beebers to STUNE!
Oh run with Hillary, please, please, please, please....
Putting Hillary on the ballot is begging to be defeated again - by a much larger margin! The Democrats just truly don't get it!
What went wrong? That's easy! They misunderestimated George W. Bush (again).
More proof that the Dems don't get it. If they see Hillary as a uniting figure, some kind of "people's champion," then they are even more out of touch than I thought. John Kerry was Mahatma Gandhi compared to the Hildebeast.
Memo to Dems - It's all over. Get out while you can. Move to Canada and renounce your US citizenship.
;)
LoL.....I can't wait....I can't stop laughing at the RATS
``The Democrats are going to have to get used to permanent minority status for a generation or two,'' he said.
CAN'T... MAKE... FACE... STOP... SMILING -- ! :)
Dems always assume it was the the fact that their message didn't get out, or that evil Republicans outspent them and distorted their message, or even that they had a bad messenger. They never consider the fact that voters simply had a problem with the message.
Do what you did after the 2002 election... Move farther to the left. It worked pretty good for us then.
I'll serve the Koolade! :~)
The Hillary train is already pulling out of the station and it seems inevitable. If she goes through the Democrat primaries unchallenged, all of the dirt on her will be fresh news when it hits in the general election. She will be the final nail in the Democrats coffin.
I would think Hillary would offend many of the moderate Democratic women, and I'm pretty sure the older generation from both parties would have a difficult time taking to ANY woman as president, let alone a "liberal weenie," to quote JibJab. The only group she would possibly appeal to is the far left femi-nazi types, I would think.
Oh, like anybody's going to publish any dirt on Hillary.
She will fascinate the Media.... whether or not she will have any popularity with the electorate is another issue.
I have an idea. Fill your pockets with rocks and take a long walk off a short pier.
Could it have been the lies, distortions, the hate and the basically elitest impression they gave to everyone. Then they put out the one candidate from their party who is so far to the left that he galvanized opposition to his being elected. Then they tried to portray him as a war hero and avoid his traitorous actions after got back. Then the brown shirt tactics and threats if anyone tried to present an opposing viewpoint or story (...better hope we don't get elected... threat to Sinclair over "Stolen Honor"). Maybe if they practiced democracy the way it is suppose to be instead of their fascist view of it, they might have done better.
"Do what you did after the 2002 election... Move farther to the left. It worked pretty good for us then."
The funny thing is that they probably will. Some big liberal blogs are calling for Dean to to take over the DNC. I can only hope...
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