[Renfield]

I was just about to post this! I've been thinking along these lines for some time.

[Crawdad]

The entrance of the Clintons onto the national stage and the redistricting/gerrymandering of Congressional districts in the early 90's that gave whiney black congressmen incredibly safe districts was the perfect storm that killed the democrat party.

[RayStacy]

bump for later

[camle]

hows about this one:

"wanna drag the country into yet another bitter, partisan impeachment? - Vote Democrat!"

[100-Fold_Return]

Predicting what will happen if the Democrats win control in one or both houses of Congress next month is a burgeoning cottage industry.

Frankly, a no-brainer. Buffett, Soros, Pickens, and other frat bros. will get their lapdogs to:

IMPEACH!

Pubbies a little slow to grasp that????

[YdontUleaveLibs]

I am going to invest in hankies. There will be a lot of moonbat tears on November 7th.

[weezel]

Like serpent head said, if dimokkkrats cant win this election, they need to fold their tents and go home. Fact is, they cant win, that is, unless Republicans dont turn out.They know it. Thats why they dont talk issues, they just complain about Bush. No answers, just bitching. Hoping to discourage Republicans from going to the polls.

If Republicans turn out, dimokkkrats will lose, and we can drive a stake thru the dark heart of this immoral, anti American bunch of bastards. Let's do it!

[PogySailor]

Democrats in Florida are running as conservatives. Every TV ad claims they are "pro-life, pro-gun, pro-defense". They KNOW they have a boat anchor tied to their ankles pulling them down and are desperate to fool voters.

[Beagle8U]

By 2012 the RATS will be fighting with Gang-Green for minority control.

[marktwain]

"This isn’t the first time a major American political party has been closely divided over a defining issue. The Democrats’ dilemma in 2006 looks a lot like the Whigs’ dilemma in 1852. The Whigs depended on support from both slave holders and abolitionists. They tried to straddle the slavery issue but they couldn’t. Their party broke apart and disappeared."

I have wondered about this for some time. What will take the place of the Democrats? The demographics are against them. The facts are against them. They have no real possibility of outside support (with the possible exception of China). All that they really have is the slowly dying MSM.

[Ditter]

>>>"They have made the mistake of believing their own propaganda yet again.">>>

I just love that line!

[Teacher317]

This election is really a no-lose situation, as far as I'm concerned. The possibilites:
1) the Dems fail to grab either House, and thereby look utterly incompetent and impotent.
2) the Dems take one House, and their impeachment and other inane efforts are countered before they even leave Congress, making them look petty and impotent.
3) They win both Houses, and the GOP finally gets their wake-up call. The expected impeachment calls will be seen for the childish revenge that they are, and they will turn off about 10% of the electorate, which opens up an easier path to vicotry for some GOP candidate in 2008. Meanwhile, the GOP might actually figure out that we really mean it when we say we want lower federal budgets, border security, and politically incorrect leadership, in addition to the strong(-ish) foreign policies they've been trying to maintain.

[soccermom]

OH, I would love for this to be right!

[Brett66]

The dims will learn nothing if they fail to gain control of the house or senate. Their SOP is political opportunism, that's all they really stand for anymore.

[HitmanLV]

One thing I think is that if the dems lose their bid to take Congress, it's time for new dem leadership as the Pelosi and Reid ships aren't bringing them where they want to go.

I also think, win or lose, it's time for new GOP leadership in Congress. Frist is gone anyway, and Hastert's rotten leadership helped bring the GOP to the brink of losing it all. The GOP gets new leadership, also.

[LS]

Mulhern published some of the most insightful pieces about the Clinton impeachment, most of which turned out to be accurate, that I can recall. He doesn't publish much---probably because he's busy actually making money---but he's dead on. The Dems are resembling, more and more, the Federalist Party in 1814, with nowhere to go but into a million little pieces.

[CIB-173RDABN]

There is a lesson here for all of us. To have ideals, to have principles are good. But to put these ideals and principles ahead of all else is bad (in the sense it will keep you from winning elections).

The vast majority of Amerian voters view themselves as being in the middle. They are afraid of both the hard left and the hard right.

When one extreme takes over a political party, they will lose many voters in the middle. This is the danger of those with "one issue" voters. You either believe everything I do, or I will not vote for you.

Polictics is compromise. You want to win elections, convince voters your ideas are not "crazy", convert them to your view.

The Democrats could win this year if they had not fallen under the influence of the far left. If after 9/11 they had fallen behind the President, quit the constant attack on him and his administration, support the war effort, they could be heading towards control of both houses next month.

But "purity" has won over common sense. The desire to destroy President Bush, and fight him on everything, while not offering any alternative, does not give the voters any choice.

They will win the purity vote from the far left. But will they will the average American in the middle support them?

The Democrats claim they never get their "message" out, but I suspect most know what the Democrats stand for. Income distribution via higher taxes, Special rights for the correct minorities, no support for the military, in fact they will "cut and run", abotion on demand, and the destruction of all "middle class values".

If you support those things, you will vote for the Democrats, if not, Republican.

[mvpel]

n the likely event that Democrats wake up on the Wednesday after the first Tuesday in November...

It's actually the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

[hosepipe]

[ They have made the mistake of believing their own propaganda yet again. ]

And THEN Dirty Harry Reid turns up with the October surprise(the land deal)..
That even the MsM can't assume the postion and swallow.. after they have sucked with abandon in the past.. Culture of Corruption indeed.. Nancy(Pelosi) do your duty.. Course; if you do, a few you're OWN deals in Mexifornia may come to light..

[Mike Bates]

Are the Democrats Whigging Out?

Not since Traficant went to the pokey.