Posted on 09/04/2006 11:15:26 AM PDT by lancer256
Dear Readers: I have a new book coming out, and I think it's probably the most important book I've written so far. It's titled "Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party." And here's why I think it's so important -- and why it must be read before the upcoming elections.
The sad fact is: The oldest continuous political party in the world is bankrupt. While the Republican Party is far from perfect and could do much better on immigration, domestic spending, and other issues, it does stand for principles beyond winning. It is the only party that can be safely entrusted with the most important issue of our day: the War on Terror. What weaknesses it has could be vastly reduced with a renewed commitment to conservative ideals across the board.
Democrats, on the other hand, have few policies beyond attacking President Bush and have long lost any legitimate right to claim they are a responsible opposition party. The "Scoop Jackson" Democrats of the 1970s who understood the need for a strong national defense are long gone, with few exceptions, like Sen. Joseph Lieberman, whose responsible statements on the war have led to his ostracism by the party elites. The 1970s Catholic, Southern, and blue-collar Democrats who stuck by their traditional moral values are now mostly "Reagan Republicans."
In their desperation to regain the power they held for decades, Democrats have seized on a few isolated scandals and manufactured others, trying to paint Republicans as fostering a culture of corruption. But the real systemic corruption is in the Democratic Party, from its highest positions of leadership to the bowels of its Bush-hating, antiwar base.
(Excerpt) Read more at davidlimbaugh.com ...
"...with few exceptions, like Sen. Joseph Lieberman, whose responsible statements on the war have led to his [being thrown under the bus] by the party elites."
A much more apt description, IMHO. These upcoming months are going to be fun, fun, fun! Can't wait to see what mis-step they take next. :)
Bankrupt YES, yet they are still winning elections. Until we can change the minds and hearts of life long democrats, they will be around for far too many years. If they haven't seen the light yet, there is little hope they ever will. The media shows no signs of converting, in fact, FOX seems to be getting more liberal everyday.
Thank God for Radio. It is the singlest most effect conversion possibility. To Rush, and all Conservative talk radio hosts, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
I'll add it to my collection. I use these pics on private emails to libs, as well as here on FR.
Cool...I will have an updated version to include 911 as one of the scandals....
Is it the one of Dick Cheney launching a SAM at an airliner headed for New England?
Agreed. It may be a good book, but hardly an original idea.
No, It's going to be the same one that I posted but with
911 in there along with Travelgate, Lewinskygate, etc.
along with a few other refinements....
I'd like to see it.
Only two reviews at Amazon, the second being the usual kind of review where if you can't attack the subject matter because it's true, attack the author.
Kind of helps prove Limbaugh's point.
Here's The Beast going after Janet Reno:
After their first night out.
Not enough pics on this thread.
Can you say traitors? I can.
Wish there was a mechanism in the Patriot Act to freeze the rabid elves' and their minions'* assets and send them packing to some backwoods country that would accept them.
No wonder the Democrats don't like the idea that this administration is checking phone numbers and intercepting calls and emails...they're probably worried as hell that the American people might find out that they had a role in this terrorist bullshit. I wouldn't put it past John Kerry in light of his past endeavors to buddy up to the Viet Cong and Noriega.
*minions is defined as as the liberal media...getting rid of the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, etc., the HollyFlakes like Michael Moore and company would be no great loss....
Hang tough, Gee Dubya ....anyone who reads this book will see and understand the Democrats' role in trying to screw you, Condi, Dick, and Don up as well as other Republicans and Democrats who don't kowtow to them.
They might also come to realize that you might be fighting this war on 3 fronts...(1)the rabid elves (Democrats), their minions -> the media, the HollyFlakes,etc.
(2) the puppet terrorists,
(3)the UN o crats who may be funding these puppet terrorists with American tax dollars...remember that 15 billion you donated to AIDs in Africa...Now that psycho Clinton wants more...
as if, Dubya!! Did these sucker terrorists run out of money?
Is that code pink's REAL BODY?????? Her stomach is THAT LOW????????Woman has more problems than worrying about IRAQ!!!!!!!!
1)Statism
2)collectivism
3)altruism
4)marxism
5)secular humanism
6)one world statist government
7)weak America
I can't answer that question directly. I did not take the picture. I lifted it from another FReeper.
The Democratic Party died in 1968 with the rejection of the New Deal/Great Society. With that rejection, the old Democratic coalition of the mid-20th Century came unglued. What it morphed into was the New Democrat Party, which stands for nothing, but is an amalgamation of amoral relativists, labor goons, crackheads, perverts, power lusters, malcontents, baby-killers, cornholers, disease-carriers, nihilists, appeasers, shiftless "victims", sociopaths, race-baiters, radical atheists, journalists, and other ne'er-do-wells of assorted social pathologies. And it represents about 48% of the electorate.
The premise of his piece is that if the Democrats have a hope of returning to the majority status they enjoyed through most of the 20th Century, they need to adopt a perspective not unlike FDR's -- liberal on social issue, the economy, and the role of government, but unashamedly pro-American in foreign policy and willing to view evil as evil.
Here's his concluding comments:
For a variety of reasons, people are undeniably unhappy with the Bush administration and the Republican Congress, and this unhappiness could conceivably suffice to carry Democrats to victory in the upcoming mid-term elections. Sixty years ago, in 1946, a minority Republican party won back the Congress simply because voters had accumulated a number of grievances and finally took them out on a Democratic party that had held power for a long time. The successful Republican slogan that year—“Had Enough?”—could well be replicated by Democrats this November.But that mid-term victory in 1946 did not reconstitute the Republicans as the majority party. And one suspects that a victory by the Democrats in 2006 would be similarly limited in its effects. However narrowly, the Republicans have been able to gain majority status in America because they succeeded in refurbishing the underlying conservative philosophy that sustains them. If the Democrats are to take things back, they too will have to learn to define themselves not simply by what they oppose but by a reimagined liberalism whose name they can speak with clarity and pride. The wrecking of liberalism in the 60’s wrecked the Democratic party; for now—even all these years later—rehabilitation does not seem a likely prospect.
In other words, should the Democrats win back one or both houses of Congress this year, that victory will likely be the result of Republican fatigue among the electorate, and not because the Dems have aligned themselves to the perspective of most Americans. Their win, should it come in Nov., would likely be short-lived, just as the Republican takeover of Congress in 1946 was.
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