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Rescuing the Democrats. (Even John Deadwards might have a point.)
The New York Times ^
| Published: October 21, 2003
| By DAVID BROOKS
Posted on 10/21/2003 1:48:41 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
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>>>>>Edwards's theory is that the Democrats' besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery.
That actually resonates. The Democratic candidates who gross me out the most, the Howard Deans and the Gray Davises, have this dispicible sense of entitlement. They feel like they have been annointed and answer to noone.
Some GOP senators, McPain and SPECTRE come to mind, also fall into that trap. However, it seems to beckon particularly to leftists. A large number of The Democratic Party's elected officials seem to view the average American as chattle at best and parasitic at worst.
An honest populist, someone who wasn't oh, a mega-bucks trial lawyer, could really make an argument that Washington routinely wiped its butt on the shirt of the average tax payer.
Edwards deserves credit for having said that at least. I'll add him in with Gephardt and LIEberman as a list of Dem Presidential Candidates who wouldn't hate the very country they were governing.
To: .cnI redruM
Edwards speech writer deserves credit for a line of dialogue that means absolutely nothing?
At least Dean has been good to gun owners.
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posted on
10/21/2003 1:56:15 PM PDT
by
JohnGalt
("the constitution as it is, the union as it was")
To: .cnI redruM
Edwards is one of the two or three Dems that might have a chance in H@ll against Geo. W. He's way behind in the Dem primary now, but he'd do well in Nov 04.
But he is an evil b@stard lawyer though. That'd be easy to attack.
It's interesting that the NYTimes seems to be annointing him.
I don't think Dean has been good to gun owners. He was just a Governor in a small rural state with a long standing tradition he couldn't go after. As a national candidate, he'd bend over for the gun grabbers.
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posted on
10/21/2003 1:59:24 PM PDT
by
narby
To: narby
Edwards got a haircut and looks more serious on TV. He actually presents himself well.
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posted on
10/21/2003 2:00:56 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
To: narby
>>>>>>I don't think Dean has been good to gun owners. He was just a Governor in a small rural state with a long standing tradition he couldn't go after. As a national candidate, he'd bend over for the gun grabbers.
He's already given himself a rhetorical escape hatch on the gun control issue. I'm looking for the link now....
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posted on
10/21/2003 2:04:33 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The September 11th attacks were clearly Clinton's most consequential legacy. - Rich Lowry)
To: .cnI redruM
It lowers taxes for people who sit around the pool and collect capital gains, while shifting the burden to people who wake up early, work hard and hope to get rich.
And in the end come upon a work-related injury lawsuit that allows them to sit around their pool all day.
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posted on
10/21/2003 2:17:42 PM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: .cnI redruM
opie, himself was, is, and always will be an idiot who will slither back into a courtroom in 05 BUT; his speech writer has a point. The rat politicians can not possibly have any respect for their voters. Rank and file rats are some of the most politically ignorant people I have ever met.
Remember that story about walter mondull at the 84 convention. When the crowd was cheering him, he snidely remarked "Look at them, I'm gonna tax their asses off."
I'm sure there are lots of stories like that, how could there not be?
To: .cnI redruM
The problem is, Edwards is another sleazy clintonoid trial lawyer. Who wants to risk elected another Bubba to the White House? Good grief.
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posted on
10/21/2003 3:07:29 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
His campaign is based on the argument that the Democrats need to nominate a person from Middle America, not from the coastal educated class.Speaking of "coastal," this is John Edwards' beach house.
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posted on
10/21/2003 3:10:38 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: .cnI redruM
Except for Bill Clinton, Democrats have nominated presidential candidates who try to figure out Middle American values by reading the polls, instead of feeling them in their gut. Arguably Carter was pretty middle American too. This bolsters the argument. Bush was a Presidents son but he kinda was what the average Joe *would do* if he were rich. Wildcatting, own a baseball team ... guy stuff. Oh yeah, marry his sweetheart, a school teacher, not a rich widow. A very Boston thing to do. A political merger. Bush played all this up. His dad's perceived elitism did hurt his re-election, and he knows it.
To: JohnGalt
Dean good to gun owners but very bad to babies about to be born when their mommy's change their mind about motherhood.
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posted on
10/21/2003 5:19:35 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
To: .cnI redruM
"It [the Bush administration]lowers taxes for people who sit around the pool and collect capital gains, while shifting the burden to people who wake up early, work hard and hope to get rich."
The DemoBaathists just aren't believable anymore. Their socialist propaganda rings more hollow each time its spouted.
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posted on
10/21/2003 5:29:15 PM PDT
by
glaux
To: Cacique
In 1992, Barnes points out, Republicans held 176 House seats. Today, they hold 229. In 1992, the G.O.P. controlled 8 state legislatures; now it controls 21. In 1992, there were 18 Republican governors; now there are 27. Thoughts?
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posted on
10/21/2003 6:11:21 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: Clemenza
Bump
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posted on
10/21/2003 6:12:23 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: .cnI redruM
Except for Bill Clinton, Democrats have nominated presidential candidates who try to figure out Middle American values by reading the polls, instead of feeling them in their gut.
"Except for Bill Clinton" Well, we know where Bill Clinton was FEELING HIS middle American values.
Edwards better "put some ice on that...".
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posted on
10/21/2003 6:17:18 PM PDT
by
tet68
(multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. M. Thompson)
To: tet68
"Howard Dean argues that the Democratic Party has lost its soul."
I couldn't agree more
To: Cicero
In his pursuit of higher office, Edwards has been flying over North Carolina quite a bit. We never see him except on the tube.
To: Clemenza
Votes do not translate into power. The left controls most of the media. They control the educational institutions. They control the entertainment industry. They control the judiciary and although outnumbered they run circles around republicans in most legislatures. Besides, those numbers leave out the fact that we elect a lot of RINOS. Yes Republicans may be on the rise, conservatives however, have no more power today than they did twenty years ago.
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posted on
10/21/2003 6:56:32 PM PDT
by
Cacique
To: Howlin
Nice lawn. Beach houses in SoCal don't have nice lawns like that, and if they do, they are about the size of a postage stamp. It must be grand to live in North Carolina.
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posted on
10/21/2003 8:36:04 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: Torie
From his front deck, he has a view of the Atlantic Ocean, the Intercoastal Waterway, and the sound behind the "private" island it's on.
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posted on
10/21/2003 8:54:37 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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