Posted on 02/05/2005 10:27:38 PM PST by quidnunc
The Democrats' worst week and a half since Black Tuesday (November 2, 2004, when the U.S. election returns came in) began on January 18, when Barbara Boxer took on Condi Rice in the Senate, and ended on Black Sunday (January 30, 2005, when Iraq held its first free election). In one comparatively short window of time, the Democrats managed to exhibit all of the class, grace, wisdom, presence, good sense, and strategic and tactical brilliance that had allowed them to move from absolute parity after the 2000 election to the loss of the House, Senate, and White House in the 2004 election, and left them apparently poised to lose even more. You too can turn yourself into a loser if you study and follow their recent behavior, and the cases to look at are these:
(1) Barbara Boxer and allies assault Condi Rice.
For mysterious reasons best known to themselves, a small diehard clique of old-line insurgents hiding out in the depths of the U.S. Senate decided to make confirmation hearings for Condoleezza Rice the venue of a bomb-throwing session, on the basis of two cherished liberal theories: one, that the war in Iraq is an utter catastrophe; and two, that while criticism of liberal nonwhites and women is always racist and sexist in nature, nonwhites and women who are right-wing or centrist are less than "authentic," and therefore deserve what they get. Thus, Margaret Carlson in the Los Angeles Times found nothing amiss in Boxer's calling Rice a liar and a lackey, but insisted Boxer's critics were somehow attacking all women.
This followed by weeks an unprecedented onslaught from liberal cartoonists and columnists, who compared Rice to a parrot, a house slave, Aunt Jemima (with one hell of a weight loss), and Prissy in Gone With the Wind. It did not help that one of Boxer's main allies was Robert A. Byrd of West Virginia, who in a prior life had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. As a method of expanding the vote of an ever-shrinking minority party, this tactic stunned some observers, who concluded the scheme had been cooked up by Karl Rove.
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thank you, quidnunc.
as usual.
"You too can turn yourself into a loser if you study and follow their recent behavior..."
LOL!
Quid does rule, doesn't he?
The democrats are in a death spiral. The harder they try to pull out, the tighter the spiral becomes. They have no idea the true nature of their situation. So they just keep trying harder what they have been doing. It truly is amazing. If you ask any freeper they will tell you what they are doing wrong. Its RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM but they refuse to see it. That is a sign of political extinction as a possiblity.
damn, Scourge, don't you ever sleep?
oh, waitaminnit... do I?
indeed.
check out my bookmarked threads list and you'll see quidnunc's name all over the place.
The worm has turned.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
Excellent article. We oughta keep our eyes on Noemie.
That Karl Rove is a crafty one-no?
The Liberals Democrats cannot break this cycle of self destruction and annihilation, and they are not going to win any election again until they get ride of the delusional left wing kooks who are gaining even more control and more straight in their party. For example one the rabid left wing kooks, Howard Dean is going to be DNC chair.
Instead of learning from their crushing defeat in November 2004, they are even going deeper in the same dumb actions that caused their defeat.
We should be happy that these are our opponents, they cannot win.
The problem with the Dem party is that over the last election year they positioned themselves so that everthing had to go badly for them to advance. The economy, Iraq, etc. Now that things are going well, they are in massive decline.
Quid reports...you decide.
(and yes, Quid is the best. Just don't tell him that. He gets grouchy when complimented!)
bttt
Although I agree with you that the liberal democrat party is dying and dying fast, there is no way the Libertarian party is going to gain any more than 0.25% of the vote.
So true, so true. And yet they simply cannot help themselves, they've been doing this for so long that they know no other way.
Ditto! Just wish she wrote more often. I look forward to her articles. I thought she had a ping list...I even thought I was on it LOL.
I'd just like to repeat that. In fact, here goes again...
one of Boxer's main allies was Robert A. Byrd of West Virginia, who in a prior life had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Outside of Christopher Caldwell, I don't know of any writer for that magazine who outshines her in terms of writing lucid, vivid and convincing prose, of a polemical nature.
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