Posted on 12/27/2014 9:15:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, they did it in my state. They brought their infection with them from the Northeastern states and, as a result, we now have Terry McAuliffe as governor.
I wish people from the deeper South would migrate up here. If the transplanted leftwing Yankees had to listen to even MORE pronounced Southern accents, it might drive them back where they came from.
As LBJ shrewdly observed at the passage of his Great Society legislation, “The n*****s will be voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”” So far, he’s right.
It’s also what you hear here (and elsewhere), almost non-stop - things like:
1) There is NO DIFFERENCE between the parties.
2) They are all scheming together
...etc.
(it wouldn’t surprise me if some of those people are Democrat trolls)
Well, if there was really “no difference”, then why did Hillarycare fail (hint, there were 43 Republican Senators, just enough to stop it)...and Obamacare pass (hint, there were 40 Republican Senators, not enough to stop it).
There are still HUGE DIFFERENCES between the parties, but, unfortunately, there are also huge differences within the Republican Party...and we tend to point those out a lot more here.
The problem with that claim, is that blacks switched from a permanent, republican vote, to a permanent democrat vote, for the 1936 election, the switch predates that quote by decades.
You seem to be great with the negatives - what would you propose as a workable game plan to fix it?
And yet the House of Representatives, which controls funding (and which is Republican controlled), did not fail to fund the monstrosity.
Let’s see what happens in 2015. I agree that they’ve been PATHETIC since taking the House in 2010. We just might (repeat, might) see something we’re proud of next year.
Examples: The South, while still predominantly Democratic, gave the Republican Conservative Goldwater, by far his strongest level of support. The only States that he carried were those in the deep South, plus his own Arizona. (It was also in the 1964 election, that Strom Thurmond's open switching of parties, started the trend that saw a steady flow of Southern Democratic Conservatives, joining the Republican Party.
Frankly, there is little evidence that the Louisiana election represents any stronger Conservative tide, so much as the fact that the Democratic candidate had shown that she was not the likeable moderate, she had previously managed to sell to her constituents, but a far less principled partisan, willing to go along with the vicious swing to the left, which the Obama Administration has shown itself to be.
As for the writer's attempt to suggest that Martin Luther King was somehow a part of a "Conservative" movement? That is the same error that Glen Beck embraced over four years ago. (See Plastique In The Foundation--Honor & Martin Luther King.)
There were Conservative Black Pastors in the 1950s & 1960s, particularly in the National Baptist Convention, which refused to get drawn into King's Movement; but that is now, sadly, largely forgotten in the mythology that has been promoted. But the whole thrust of the King movement was towards ever increased Federal involvement, as the answer to any problem in the lives of an ever more dependent population. (The Obama, not the American way.)
William Flax
Oh, I quite agree on letting the new congress get into office before criticizing them; however, given the poor showing we've seen [as you mention 2010], it would be foolish to give them the benefit of the doubt
it would be foolish to excuse non-action and the continual evasion of accountability that characterizes Congress as-an-institution.
Agree...and they will get some time. We’ll see how it goes, but having Boener there is certainly not a good start.
IMHO the Progressives are actually REGRESSIVES. Look at the way they embrace barbarian Islamists.
Depends on how many illegals vote I imagine.
I was looking to hear what “pretty soon” means to Gay State Conservative.
Don’t you mean Northeast?
The author takes liberties with history and goes into contortions to manufacture racial political harmony. Beg pardon, but I’m not celebrating Lyndon Baines Johnson, no way, no how. Also, behind the soaring rhetoric, Martin Luther King was not what he’s been packaged and sold as being.
This sounds as if it was not written by a southerner but rather by a northeastern Republican, imho.
Horseshit neoyankee agitprop
Bill is right as usual
The south is conservative, but liberalism takes hold in the cities and as the cities grow, the Dems take hold.
It’s this way all over the south. The states are conservative, except in the cities. Austin in Texas, New Orleans in La., Atlanta in Ga., Charlotte, Durham/Raleigh in NC, and as others have said the DC suburbs in Virginia.
The battle is not regional as much as it is city v. country.
You must be referring to the commie "left coast." When you cross the cascades in the northwest, and the sierras in California, and get over in the eastern parts of those states, you'll find they are definitely not commies - as you assert.
“I guess with those standards, you can NEVER be happy. Yes, not all of the leaders will be perfect...but don’t think, for a moment, that some Third Party that people salivate over will do any better...after all, we see that much of the Tea Party leadership has now even sold out.
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I agree, as his comment was a glass-half-empty rather than a glass-half-full.
While mentions those not particularly conservative, I wonder why he does not mention the Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindahl or Allen West as a balance to those he mentions.
It’s pretty normal to dwell on faults, and it’s very normal and understandable here, as there is NO NEED for someone like Mrs. Graham to be so damn left-wing, considering that she comes from South Caroline - she does not have to worry about losing a Democrat in that state or facing a primary challenge from the left, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
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