Posted on 11/07/2002 1:04:57 PM PST by Pokey78
Another excellent obituary on the late Democratic Party! The forum has so many well-written articles on its demise.
So much for the Democratic Party claiming to want every vote to count. So much for their lauding of 'choice.' Gray Davis in California tried to pull the same stunt, calling on Bill Simon to quit the race a few weeks before the election
Heck, that's nothin'. You need to see what he's like when he's hammering Europeans
Tiny sample:
Mr Bush is a polite, modest fellow. He speaks softly because he carries the world's biggest stick. Conversely, the Europeans speak ever more shrilly because their twig is even tinier than Osama bin Laden's notoriously small penis.
This reminds me: what is/are the author(s) of that book "The New Democratic Majority" (or something like that) saying in the aftermath of this election? As I understand it, their hypothesis is that the growing African-American and Hispannic populations basically guarantee Democrat dominance for the coming generation or more. The reality is: such simple-minded thinking has left the Demos direction-less and without a message other than "oppose the GOP." I suspect even the growing middle-class black population won't buy the Demo high tax, socialist message -- and I know the middle-class and upward aspiring Hispannics won't buy that garbage. Look for that book in the remainder bin shortly!
Meanwhile, the do-what-you-gotta-do philosophy of the McAuliffe crowd is making the party look just plain ugly: at Republican concession speeches, the bromides about congratulating the Democratic victor and urging everyone to get behind him in the best interests of our state were listened to respectfully; at Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s concession speech in Maryland and Gray Davis’s victory speech in California, the pro forma acknowledgments of their Republican opponents were greeted by boos. From the crowd. This was in keeping with what I think posterity will record as the ‘defining moment’ of the campaign — the grisly televised ‘memorial service’ for the late Senator Wellstone held in the solemn cloisters of the basketball arena at the University of Minnesota at which fist-pumping mourners hissed Republican senators, and deranged activists publicly demanded that these alleged GOP friends of Paul demonstrate their loyalty by renouncing their parties and campaigning for his posthumous victory. To those watching at home, it looked like hidden-camera footage from inside a particularly insane cult. It’s a commonplace, especially in Britain, to hear the ‘religious Right’ referred to as a bunch of weirdos who are an embarrassment to the Republican party. Well, the Minnesota memorial gave us the religious Left: they don’t believe in God, they believe in politics; the Democratic party is their church, Wellstone their latest martyr, and the campaign a crusade. They couldn’t have been any freakier if they’d been speaking in tongues.The media didn’t seem to see anything wrong in the memorial attack-orgy, until they started getting word that regular Minnesotans had found it a turn-off. Maybe we don’t just need some new Democratic candidates, but some new Democratic pundits, too. On the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times, veteran Times bore R.W. (‘Johnny’) Apple Jr turned in a masterpiece of patrician ennui in which the unprecedented Republican achievements, from New Hampshire to Hawaii, were passed off as lifeless and cheerless and evidence of the public’s ‘disenchantment and curious disconnection from the political system’. I’d say they were evidence of the Times’s disenchantment and curious disconnection from reality: Apple’s ‘analysis’ was almost as hilarious as his predictions of a Vietnam-style quagmire in Afghanistan a week before Kabul fell.
I'd hate to accidentally miss one.
How about we make that Canadians and other foreign born Americans.
The dream Ticket, Mark Steyn and Arnold Shwarzenegger...
Vintage Steyn!
BUMP!
Play the accordian, go to jail. It's the law!
Dems clean up their sleaze and they're not dead because there are a lot of goofy people that believe in their more socialist ideas, but just won't vote for them because of the extra-curricular activity they're always engaged in. By sleaze, I mean lies, treason, fraud, Clintonism (ex: Wellstone memorial antics), union thuggery, etc. But this stuff is now so ingrained into them I don't see them acting respectable for quite a while.
I literally believe Mark Steyn is the best columnist out there.
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