Posted on 11/10/2004 5:34:58 AM PST by blitzgig
According to The New York Times, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, reflecting on her party's recent losses in the presidential, Senate and House elections, asked: "How did a party that is filled with people with values -- and I am a person with values -- get tagged as the party without values?"
As one who was raised a Democrat and became a Republican only 10 years ago, I would like to answer Gov. Napolitano's question as honestly as she posed it.
Gov. Napolitano, your party does indeed have very many people with values in it. But the Democratic Party is no more representative of the average Democrat's values than the National Council of Churches is of the average Protestant's values. Both are far to the left of their membership.
Here is the Democratic Party as most Americans, including this John F. Kennedy liberal -- a New York City born and raised, Jewish, Ivy League-educated intellectual who lives in Los Angeles -- see it.
To most Americans, Michael Moore is a Marxist who has utter contempt for most of his fellow Americans, who goes abroad and tells huge audiences how stupid and venal his country is, and in his dishonest propaganda film, portrays the American military as callous buffoons. Yet, this radical was given the most honored seat at the Democratic Party convention in Boston, next to former President Jimmy Carter.
To most Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-baiting demagogues. Yet they are heroes to the Democratic Party. Most Americans do not see their country as the bigoted and racist nation regularly depicted by both black and white Democratic leaders.
speaking of insanity, DU is once again accepting new registrations. i figure i'll get banned on my first post.
The Democrat Party has put itself in quite a hole. I don't think they can climb out.
This is only an excerpt - the entire column is worth reading.
Tagged? They were beeyatch slapped!
Whatever their views on abortion and abortion rights, the vast majority of Americans view the abortion of a viable fetus/baby (partial-birth abortion) as immoral. The Democratic candidate and his fellow Democrats repeatedly voted against a ban on this practice.
Gov. Napolitano, I hope that this short list answers your question about how it is that your party has gotten tagged as "the party without values." Indeed, the real question, as this observer sees it, is how has this party retained so many people who have traditional American values?
They could if they openly shunned Michael Moore, the Hollywood left, and black race baiters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The question is, would they go to such steps to regain the true democrats.
I vainly posted an article yesterday called "VALUES - It's the 10 Commandments, Stupid!' But I don't know how to link to it (kinda stupid of me. huh?)
"How did a party that is filled with people with values -- and I am a person with values -- get tagged as the party without values?"
They value gay marriage.
Probably because that helped the president get re-elected...
When my hero, Richard Nixon, did a really stupid thing that would in the end overshadow all the good things he did in his time, the leaders of the GOP took a long walk up to the White House. Shortly after that, the GOP's Nixon did the honorable thing, and stepped down in disgrace. When the Democrats had one of their own on the griddle, they did nothing. Most of their party's congresspeople didn't even go to the Ford building to look at the evidence. And the long-winded furor over his lies distracted from the growing evil of the Islamofacists, while good men died and the Democrats protected one of their own.
Gee, I can't imagine why people would brand them "the No Values Party."
Liberal are for killing the innocent through abortion, but oppose killing the guilty with the death penalty.
Yeah! Come on over to the Republican Party, all you disenfranchised Democrats whose Party has left you scratching your heads in disgust and amazement. There's a big tent, the New Colossus, beckoning to you. Come into the light. Follow Zell: he's leading the way.
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Don't forget that Democrats generally support embryonic stem cell research, up to and including the evenutality that embryos would be grown and harvested to provide therapies to people who need them.
So they are, in effect, supporting the harvesting of humans for use in medical treatments.
If that isn't on the same level as Soylent Green, I don't know what is.
BTt
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