Democrats Go Off the Cliff

Weekly Standard ^ | 20 jun 03 | David Brooks

[RAT Patrol]

"This republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this administration," says Democratic senator Robert Byrd.

Okay, here you have an ex-KKK guy saying that we (does he include blacks in that?) are in the greatest danger in our history. Um....does anyone else see a Trent Lott style, historical memory-wiping statement here?

[oceanview]

just broke into the Pat Buchanan show on MSNBC with this report.

[Robert A Cook PE]

GOOD COMMENTS!

(But he only (inpassing) notes the extremist lies the democrats are throwing constantly...They have no position except their lies!)

[Cordova Belle]

Most telling line:

The Democrats are letting their inner selves out for a romp.

Like "The Portrait of Dorian Gray," they are allowing us to see their true, hated-filled selves.

Hatred is not very attractive.

How many soccer moms will be drawn to this?

[gulfcoast6]

Ole Robert is having increased Sr. Citizens moments you know. All this by the democracts is called PANIC and I love it.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Insults from the left are merely confessions.

[Zeroisanumber]

I note that we said some of the same things about Clinton and it sounded just as unreasonable and far out to the other side. The Union survived that, more or less, I imagine that it will survive this current crop of hot air.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Their biggest problem is that they scream loudest because theri message is just not getting out.

I mean after all, the press is so conservitive that they have to drag out AlGore to start a new network just to get the Liberal message out! If they would just just yell a little louder, then all of America would hear them. If America could just hear them above all the evil talk radio. They need to get Pelosi and Byrd and the crew to become more and more shrill. Those are the only voices any body wants to hear. When we hear how desparate they are we may feel pity and vote their way. If they could only get their message out, America would understand that they have been victims and should be compensated for all their pain. After all, it is hard to be a Democrat these days.

[Cordova Belle]

not the pale pale grayish-white cranky grim greedy people, the secular pluralist people and not the theocrats, the misogynists, Muslim and Christian and Jewish fundamentalists

If this isn't hatred, I don't know how to recognize it.

[MEG33]

"We're not real haters" should have required Shrum to have the Heimlich performed on him to keep him from choking on his words.

[Cyber Ninja]

W is the shaker of salt sprinkling down on these slugs in the Democrat party.

Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle pretty white salt.
See the slugs start foaming to a frothy malt.
W is doing just great.
And that gins the hate.
See, they are out of power and it’s his fault.

CB^)

[Radix]

..our politics is still a contest between two competing but essentially valid worldviews;

I cannot agree with this comment.

[Bullish]

I'm hoping the democrats are out of power for good.

They've proven what lying schmucks they are.

[Exeter]

"They play hardball, we play softball," Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile added."

SAY WHAT?! "Spitball" Donna Brazile plays softball? Since when?

[thinktwice]

Democrats are practicing the politics of envy -- a vice according to Aristotle's Ethics. Where righteous indignation is considered a virtue, indignant reactions expressed in envy or maliciousness are vices.

Ethics isn't taught in public schools because people think that morality is a religious matter -- it isn't, but those religious won't agree with me.

All of society would benefit if Aristotle's non-denominational ethics was taught in public schools.

[Jumper]

All the sincere and decent democrats are now questioning that party and their affiliation, and quite often they are renouncing these ties to remain saine in the Republican Party. It is apparent that the Clinton years, culminating with the Gore Flordia debacle was the high tide of the left; their shrill angry voices trying to steal an election has turned many Americans against them. Then the opposition to National Security and old democratic demands that no one be held responsible....

[MEG33]

My #30 fits her,too!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

"The Most Dangerous President Ever" is the title of an essay in the American Prospect by Harold Meyerson

I have always thought being dangerous to our enemies is a good thing.

[Cyber Ninja]

Many on the left think they have been losing because their souls are too elevated.

Elevated is not the direction most Democrat's souls are going to be going.

CB^)

[Cicero]

On the whole, the article is good. But why do we always have to have that obligatory "give them the benefit of the doubt"?

NOW IT IS TRUE that you can find conservatives and Republicans who went berserk during the Clinton years, accusing the Clintons of multiple murders and obsessing over how Vince Foster's body may or may not have been moved. And it is true that Michael Savage and Ann Coulter are still out there accusing the liberals of treason.

Come on. There is abundant evidence that clinton his political enemies--notably Vincent Foster and Ron Brown--assassinated. There's also abundant evidence that he was a rapist. And abundant evidence that he betrayed his country's most important security secrets for Chinese campaign dollars.

No doubt many Republican politicians like power, but Democrat politicians LOVE power and simply cannot live without it. They've been hooked on it for a century, whereas Republicans have only had brief tastes of it except in a few pockets like Nassau County, where they have paid for their Democrat-like abuse of power.