Posted on 02/10/2011 5:56:29 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot
...In 2012, the president's strategists can choose between trying to reproduce Obama's narrow wins in the affluent corners of the South (not including Florida) or attempting to hold on to swing states like Nevada and Colorado, where Democratic senators in 2010 won on support from well-organized Hispanic voters and the labor movement. It's not a tough call. It would be almost impossible to make the case for investing political resources in the South. The divorce is final. And largely for the good, as congressional Democrats will no longer have to twist their policies beyond recognition to accommodate Southern Democrats who are doomed anyway.
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Lessons learned? Or have they doubled down on a disastrous course of action that will keep them out of power for a generation?
Or have they doubled down on a disastrous course of action that will keep them out of power for a generation?
This.
They are focusing on the South — that’s where their next convention is, No Carolina. I hope it brings the TeaParty out in force.
Fanatic believers, especially articulate, educated ones, are a sight to behold. This cannot end well, though they may have the fleeting impression it is working in the very short run.
No strategy than this would be better planned to emphasize the split in American ideology and possibly foment a permanent division of one part of the nation from the other.
And I fervently hope the democrats follow that advice, especially in light of the election results in November. The dems don't tend to do well on a national basis when they double-down on the liberal path. Victory for them comes when they succeed in fooling the sheeple that they've shifted to the political center.
As for the South needing the dems... I'd like to know what the author is smoking. It must be some fine stuff.
Good luck with that strategy. The Democrats won’t just lose the South, they’ll lose border states and the Midwest. Its a platform the American people don’t like.
No, actually, we don't.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The country as a whole does not need socialism. Especially the south.
Quotes on American Progress:
“the simple fact is that we should encourage people who have progressive ideas to move out of the South”
Please GO!!
“And the way to do that is to let the fools who believe that “n!ggers are all rapists”, “wetbacks are stealing my job”, and “the free market will make us all rich” run those states into the ground”
All the economic growth is in the South and many of the people of color are doing much better that urban people of color in Progressive Bastions like Boston and Chicago.
“Then formalize the divorce by ejecting them. They tried to leave once before and were forcibly detained.We should have let them go.”
Absolutely!!!! This former New Yorker wants no part of the lefty North.
Conversely the free traders and pro banker GOP is killing support from the Reagan Democrats that are needed to hold onto the mid West/Great Lakes. Want to win 2012, give me a candidate that has a history of going after corporate America when they cross the line and screw the taxpayer. The first candidate that will make an effort to put the bankers in jail for their shenanigans has my vote. Only GOP potential that has that history is Gov Palin. She broke up the fix contracting schemes of the old GOP/oil companies as well as go after large oil companies that win leases to drill oil and then sat on the state land. This is one of the legitimate point the Dem left makes about oil companies claiming they need more land for drilling when they already have plenty of land and no activity during the Bush and to an extent the Clinton years. Note: Obama makes the situation even worst under its current DoE/EPA/Interior Dept with all their reg hurdles to drilling on land.
I don’t see (.)bama doing anything that will entice southern, somewhat moderate, dems to support his programs. Besides that, queen Pelousy seems to be doing her part to shut out anyone in the dem party who is not completely left wing. The inroads the GOP made in 2010 at the state and local levels, mostly in the south and mid west, with pay dividends in 2012 as the mood of the country is against big city and left coast philosophies IMO.
As the song says, “the Southern man don’t need you around, anyhow.”
What Democratic Conventions bring out is their lunatic fringe group coalition.
It will become the Charlotte Freak Show, and it will further alienate Southern voters.
Well, since Pennsylvania now has a Republican governor, Lt. Governor, Senate, House one Senator and the large majority of Federal reps, I guess Pennsylvania can be written off also. Same with Ohio..
Oh, BTW, we’ll be working on the second Senator from Pennsylvania in 2012. See ya at the polls Casey...
The country as a whole does not need socialism. Especially the south.
You re right. The south is used to hard work and living on less than the enlightened, “more educated”, politically correct rest of the country and we have and will survive. So, we are fine in God fearing, country loving, gun toting land. They will understand how little we need them come 2012 and beyond. Oh, and if you need that oil you hate so much in the future, forget it.
The South need Democrats...to go away.
Soros, pulling the strings again...
“director of the Governance and Public Policy program at the Open Society Institute”
“Open Society”? Isn’t that George Soros’ group?
I agree.
But when they abandon the South, we can spend less defending it.
This allows us to spend our resources in the battleground states.
Yes, sir.
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