Declining Democrats, Intimidated Republicans

Opinion Journal ^ | 11/04/2002 | ROBERT L. BARTLEY

[Pokey78]

Reagan won because he wasn't afraid to go on the offensive.

"I used to be a Democrat years ago," legendary Fed Chairman Paul Volcker said last week while in Iowa campaigning for Republican Jim Leach. "I'm kind of a nothing now." A week earlier I sat with a onetime Democratic White House aide over after-dinner drinks and cigars; he confessed, "I keep trying to figure out what the Democratic Party stands for anymore."

[ChadGore]

WIN ONE FOR THE GIPPER

Vote on Tuesday.

Do the right thing.

[clintonh8r]

bump

[SeeRushToldU_So]

 

To be a Democrat, you have to believe that ….

1. The AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
2. Trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid.
3. Global temperatures are affected more by a suburban soccer mom driving an SUV than by documented, cyclical variations in the brightness and intensity of the sun.
4. Guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein.
5. Businesses create oppression and government creates prosperity.
6. Self-esteem is more important than doing anything to earn it.
7. There was no art before federal funding.
8. The NRA is a bad organization because it stands up for certain parts of the Constitution, but the ACLU is a good organization because it stands up for certain parts of the Constitution.
9. Taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.
10. Standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas are not.
11. ANY change in the weather is proof of global warming.
12. National wealth is determine by what we consume, not by what we produce.
13. The only wars in which America should become involved are those in which our national security is not at risk.
14. Perjury and obstruction of justice are impeachable if a Republican president commits them but a harmless, private matter if a Democrat president commits them.
15. America can have a strong military without spending money on it.
16. The way to improve public school is to give more money and power to the very people who have misused that power and money to destroy the public schools.
17. Hunters and fishermen do not care about the environment but pasty-faced activists that rarely venture out-of-doors do.
18. A bureaucrat living in Washington, D.C. can make better decisions about how to spend the money that you earn than you can.
19. Being a movie or television star qualifies you to speak out on public policy.
20. Hillary Clinton is a wonderful example for young women of feminine independence even though she has never accomplished anything worthwhile without riding on the coattails of her husband.
21. A handful of religious whackos living in rural Texas are ore of a threat to public safety than Islamic terrorists who wish to plant bombs in major American cities.
22. Passing new laws are a much better way to curb crime than enforcing the existing ones.
23. Tax cut are for people who don’t actually pay income taxes.

 

I took this from Neal Boortz's web site.

[GOPJ]

He knows the democrat's dark heart, and the Republicans cowardliness. For comforts sake, a powerful comment about democrats:

Their commendable civil rights accomplishments turned away from individual opportunity and into group entitlements. Their agenda of using the government to uplift the poor reduced itself to absurdity with the Great Society. Their economic policy, based on Keynesian demand management, dissolved in the stagflation of the 1970s. Under Bill Clinton, their onetime moral authority became a sick joke.

[GOPJ]

This needs to be it's own post so other freepers can add to the list. What a find. Thanks

To be a Democrat, you have to believe that ….

[Reagan Man]

>>>The Democrats have lost the intellectual glue that held together their imposing political coalition, at one time combining Southern segregationists and northern blacks, urban ethnics and Harvard dons. Their claims of unique expertise in foreign policy, built with World War II and the greatest generation, sank in the rice paddies of Vietnam. Their commendable civil rights accomplishments turned away from individual opportunity and into group entitlements. Their agenda of using the government to uplift the poor reduced itself to absurdity with the Great Society. Their economic policy, based on Keynesian demand management, dissolved in the stagflation of the 1970s. Under Bill Clinton, their onetime moral authority became a sick joke.

Real good article.

[Ciexyz]

Sheesh, the Great Society. I still remember my grade school Scholastic Magazine that assured us that we could conquer poverty by a government program.

[Always Right]

Their (Democrats) commendable civil rights accomplishments turned away from individual opportunity and into group entitlements.

I am still amazed that educated people still give credit to the Democrats for Civil Rights Laws. Sure JFK pushed for them, but it was the Republicans who overwhelmingly passed them over the objection of Democrats.

[billhilly]

The democrat mantra is "step forward and make a difference." I used to do that on the farm when I was a kid. When daydreaming and stepping forward on the farm, you can make a great difference, and a great stink in the house.

[okie01]

Bump for truth.

[alex]

Republicans introduced the Reconstruction right after the Civil War. It took 100 years for the simple idea of racial equality to sunk into collective RATs' mind. I do not think that this 100 years delay is a reason to celebrate anything.

[Cobra64]

Is there any way that this can be sent, en masse, to all Senators and Congressmen?

[Cobra64]

Too bad this cannot be captured with the numerics so that it can be emailed to others. Why don't folks think forward in terms of emailing purposes? Cut, paste, edit, MS Word, Save. Compose, Attach...

[Stultis]

I am still amazed that educated people still give credit to the Democrats for Civil Rights Laws. Sure JFK pushed for them

No. LBJ did, but JFK never "pushed for" civil rights. All he offered on the subject, very much in the tradition of his party, was lip service.

but it was the Republicans who overwhelmingly passed them over the objection of Democrats

Actually there were more total Democrat votes for the '64 Civil Rights Act, but that was only because there were more Democrats in congress. Republican support was much stronger by percentage:

I believe that Democrats have lied about who supported the Civil Rights Act for so long that they actually believe their lies. But anytime this lie is retold, I feel compelled to debunk it. So here we go again...

The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 (p. 1323) recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Republicans (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democratic senators voted against the Act. This includes the current senator from West Virginia and former KKK member Robert C. Bryd and former Tennessee senator Al Gore, Sr. (the father of Bradley's Democratic opponent). Surely young Bradley must have flunked his internship because ostensibly he did not learn that the Act's primary opposition came from the southern Democrats' 74-day filibuster. In addition, he did not know that 21 is over three times as much as six, otherwise he would have become - according to the logic of his statement - a Republican.

In the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 southern Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80% (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.

Since Bradley was interning in the Senate, why doesn't he remember the major role the Republicans played in fighting for civil rights? During the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican Party made more progress in civil rights than in the preceding 80 years.

Bill Bradley Fouls the Civil Rights Act (Project 21)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I think Bush's primary problem is that he did not initially understand the old, formerly dominant media, or the partizan stubborness of the DC rat leadership. He probably had been treated more fairly in Texas by the media, and he might have found more bi-partizan cooperation in the state legislature.

But GW is learning.

As for his father, he never understood Reagan. He never understood supplyside economics. It was probably due to his college education and exposure to other ivy league grads. It was hard to believe that Reagan was smarter than all those mucky-muck professors. At least Bush understood the military.

As for other republicans, many don't believe in conservatism in their hearts. Others are intimidated to this day by their FBI files. Yet others are still fearful of the liberal media.

Reagan was a Godsend. He was the right man at the right place at the right time:

1. He had name recognition.
2. He did not worship the ivy league colleges.
3. Carter was easy to defeat and dropped the bar as to
what people might expect from a president.
4. Carter also symbolised college level thinking.
Americans were not impressed.
5. Reagan was able to communicate effectively and
the media feared his popularity too much to deny
him air time the way they deny Bush's air time.

The irony is that Mondale is Carter Plus in Minnesota. "We're going to tax their a$$es off."

[galt-jw]

The dems have no principles, but will fight as if they had.

The pubs claim to have principles, but will fight as if they do not.

[KC_Conspirator]

To an astonishing degree the Republican Party has turned away from this legacy.

I am not sure I really agree with this. Reagan (Ronaldus Magnus) is by far the most invoked name in the GOP and when his bio ran at the convention in 2000 the place went effin wild. Can't say the same for any other guy.

[GOPJ]

One more bump...

[Wright is right!]

Oh, boy, here's comes The Giant FR Slowdown again....sheesh, I thought they had it fixed....

"The Harvey Pitt debacle is eroding moral authority won after September 11."

The Harvey Pitt Debacle is a media event and nothing more. It will have NO traction and get virtually NO mention after tomorrow. You ask the man on the street what they think about Harvey Pitt and they'll tell you they think Pitt beat Harvey 42-37 in overtime.

Michael