>> They have a death wish.
That, or they’re just “Stuck on Stupid.”
Gay marriage, DREAM Act, DADT repeal, doubling the national debt, suing Arizona, destroying NASA, skyrocketing gas prices, limpwristed foreign policy, chronic unemployment, Obamacare, Pigford reparations scam ...
I am SOLD on voting against Obama in 2012.
The real question is, will the Republicans nominate someone who is worth voting for with a strong brand that we can get behind, or will the establishment get their way and nominate another Dole or a Juan McCain (or even worse a W.) that will go down in flames.
I’m not voting for Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, Flip Romney, Huckster or Jeb Bush under any circumstances. David Brooks’ recent praise of Mitch Daniels in the NY Times has me leaning toward crossing him off my list too.
If Sarah Palin would run on a strong border security platform, she would get my vote. I don’t know what to make though of any of the other candidates.
I mildly disagree with the opening premise. The dems did indeed learn from the midterms that the country leans right, and may very well do so for the forseeable future after seeing how Obama’s spending binge has only driven us deeper into that ditch.
The left are pushing HARD against this reality because leftists by nature have the temperament of children—they don’t care about ‘facts’ or ‘reality,’ they want what they want, and when do they want it? NOW!
I think the very idea that they had their chance and lost infuriated them because they were SOOOOO close to their dreams—A Black President! Healthcare for all! The USA no longer a world power! Swords into plowshares! Rush Limbaugh defeated by Fairness Doctrine ‘competition’!
But you don’t just ‘get’ all that stuff. The thing is, when you get down to it, leftists think they deserve what they want for one reason: They REEEEEALLY want it! Isn’t that reason enough to give it to them?
Now the rest of the country has said “Enough with this foolishness,” and the leftists aren’t going to just say “Oh, all right,” as a reasonable person would.
if they were reasonable, they wouldn’t be leftists.
They have a point. No one wants a squishy milquetoast as a politician. On both sides there must be a clear difference in political thought so voters can make a choice.
That said, Democrats have yet to figure out that Leftist thought is a very small minority in the beliefs of Americans.
What always gets them elected in significant numbers is when Republican candidates forget to run on/act on Conservative beliefs.
Another problem they have is that the hippy Baby Boomer types that are their core supporters are not-so-slowly starting to die off. They don’t have too many more election cycles left before they may be relegated to permanent minority power status, along with the Greens.
They are desperate to get their policies entrenched before time runs out - because they know that repealing a long-emplaced policy is very, very difficult.
Liberals do not listen to anyone, not even their own.
They may have a death wish. On the other hand, seeing the huge mass of college students standing with the left (and voting democrat one or more times per election) doesn’t lend itself to a positive outlook.
These brainwashed masses, having sat through several semesters of mind-numbing leftism as taught by aging draft-dodging hippies, seem to be maintaining their love for communism and fascism. I suppose many will outgrow it when they enter the real world, but as long as the left owns our colleges and schools, our younger adults will continue to be spoon fed the marxist ideology. And they will vote that way, often both at home (by absentee ballot) and in person at school.
Tester is just another win at any cost Democrat. He probably approved the comments against him so that he can appear to be more conservative in MT. He knows the Democrat game plan in MT, “Run as a conservative, vote as a liberal.”
In a way, yes. The fatal flaw of "progressivism" is that like all progressive diseases, it has no stop mechanism, and ends only with the destruction of the host.
We are seeing a harbinger of that now, as the 'rats in Washington expose themselves as being organically incapable of fiscal restraint. The president says "we have to live within our means" and then issues a "budget" with the biggest deficit of all time. And his toadies in Congress whine that they cannot cut even one dollar.
If the RINOs and DINOs are all done away with, so we have a strongly conservative party facing off against a frankly Marxist-Leninist party, with 55% of Americans on our side and 45% on the other, the result may be war.
With a communist minority as large as now exists in this country, electoral victory by conservatives may result in an ungovernable mess.