Democratic Strategists in 2014 Are Like French Generals in 1940

Townhall.com ^ | March 18, 2014 | Michael Barone

[Gen.Blather]

Speaking about income inequality a friend just got back from a month in Australia where they have a “living wage.” She reports a McDonald’s small burger, fry and soda is $10. She said the food was grossly overpriced. She survived on sandwich meat and bread. A steak such as we’d get here for $12-15 is $50. She said, “the irony is, so they’re making a living wage, but they have to live in a world where everything cost several times what it costs here. So how much did the gain from this living wage?”

[MUDDOG]

Dems’ Maginot Line is all the people getting gov’t checks.

[dfwgator]

Dems’ Maginot Line is all the people getting gov’t checks.

So how do the Republicans move into Belgium?

[MUDDOG]

Don’t deviate from the Schlieffen plan.

[Noumenon]

They’ll have to annex the Sudetenland first.

[SoFloFreeper]

Fraud, fraud and more fraud is the Demon Rat plan.

[Kaslin]

They could never win without fraud

[TADSLOS]

The republicans are too busy recruiting the Mexican Amnesty Expeditionary Force to execute a counter attack against Field Marshall Cruz. Belgium will have to fall.

[tet68]

Don’t deviate from the Schlieffen plan.

“Only make the right wing strong!”, Schlieffen.

[yarddog]

I recently saw a program about the German advance through Belgium in the early days of the war.

Some French generals including Charles de Gaul realized the Germans must have had very thin string of supply lines and if they could cut them, the Germans would be the ones stranded.

Unfortunately for the French, de Gaul did attack but the Germans fought so well that he was unable to break through what must have been a very thin line.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

[ken5050]

BREAKING NEWS: MSNBC and HuffoPo both have banner headlines:

MICHAEL BARONE CALLS REPUBLICANS "NAZIS!"

[wbill]

Today's Democrats .... must hope that the opposition makes disabling mistakes.

Given the state of the Republican Party, that's likely a pretty good strategy.

[longfellow]

I am so sick of this Shiite.
Hey scumbag dems, Patton was a republican and he killed more Nazis thanaanyone.

[bestintxas]

Headline reminds me of the one about the ad that read “French Firearm, lightly used, never fired, dropped once”

[MUDDOG]

“Only make the right wing strong!”, Schlieffen.

Indeed!

[kevkrom]

So how do the Republicans move into Belgium?

Move around them, using the historical analogy. If Romney was right about one thing, it's the large number of people that you can't even bother appealing to, because they're too committed to being wards of the state. Don't bother trying to curry favor with them, work on the ones footing the bill - we still are the majority, if barely.

[Balding_Eagle]

so they’re making a living wage, but they have to live in a world where everything cost several times what it costs here. So how much did the gain from this living wage?”

A proper 'living wage' would ratchet up each month to keep step with increased living costs.

LOL! Didn't an African country have something like that? Zimbabwe?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Except to hope for mistakes by Republicans -- who have shown quite capable of mistakes in the past. We'll see how many they make this time.

They have already made one. "Repeal and Replace". The people who hate Obamacare -- which is the majority of the population in every poll I have ever seen -- don't want the government in their health care. Replace? No. Not with more government.