Posted on 11/04/2004 5:28:56 AM PST by OESY
...And while President Bush sought constantly to sharpen his differences with Mr. Kerry, the Senator largely succeeded in blurring them, turning an argument about ideology into one about competence. Given the current parameters of Democratic orthodoxy and Mr. Kerry's sincerely held reservations about the use of force, it was the only thing he could do.
As it is, Mr. Kerry was not exactly the night's lonely Democratic loser. This is the third consecutive election in which the Democrats have lost to George Bush's Republicans (with each loss bigger than the last) and that is no accident. In part it has to do with the global zeitgeist, which plays to traditional Republican strengths on national security; in part with demographic shifts that tilt the electoral college Mr. Bush's way. And as we write in a related commentary, it has still more to do with Mr. Bush's skill as a politician and boldness as a policy maker....
Yet today, the Democratic Party not only suffers trial lawyers and other strange folk -- it puts them on the ticket. For a party that still reckons itself a national force, it is astonishing that Kerry-Edwards started out by simply yielding some 200 "red" electoral votes, or more than a third of the country....
This is a Democratic Party in which nostalgia for tradition is too often considered racism, opposition to gay marriage is bigotry, misgiving about abortion is misogyny, Christian fundamentalism is like Islamic fundamentalism, discussion about gender roles is sexism, and confidence in America's global purpose is cultural imperialism. To put it mildly, this is not the values system to which most Americans adhere....
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Where is the website I can use to read the article without registering?
Less economics, more metaphysics.
The WSJ does this all the time. Get a subscription and you'll find out what I mean.
Their arrogant quest for power is annoying the voters, yet in their arrogance they reject any change in tactics.
But in the meantime, I for one will sit back and watch the train crash and enjoy the show.
Just a very, very freindly reminder from a strong Bush supporter....
"...And Don't Forget it!"
THey can get a pretty good percentage of folks together, bent on accumulation of some one else's income.
Before the the internet and online news sites, the WSJ editorial page was one of the few places where one could read intelligent conservative opinion every day. The first time I ever heard about the concept of gay marriage was in the WSJ editorial page back in 1988 during the presidential campaign. In an editorial about Dukakis' likely Supreme Court nominiations, several editorials pointed out that Laurence Tribe and Susan Estrich supported the view that the 14th amendment required the recoginition of "gay marriages". It's good to see the internet provide a firehose of conservative political thought while just a mere 16 years ago was just one leaky faucet.
Cultural liberalism should be renamed cultural demagoguery. Everyone is a racist pig, hates women, homosexuals, old people, all minorities, is dumb and stupid...
>>For their party to surive they need a change in their failed ledership.<<
For the Rats to survive, they must first find a conscience. You may have noticed that Senator sKerry stated that he believes life begins at birth. Yet he has survived for 19 years as a Rat unchallenged on this as it relates to abortioin. No one in the Rat party can challenge him on it because Rats who do have no future in that party.
www.bugmenot.com
"The Democrats will never govern in this country as long as we poke fun at people who live on farms and in trailer parks, and crack jokes about people who dunk their heads in the river and say they've found Jesus. These people have tremendous political influence in this country, and they're voting Republican . . . and we've got P. Diddy doing Election Night interviews on all the news networks."
In my opinion, Kerry's loss has less to do with overal Democratic social liberalism and more to do with his personal lack of character and rank hypocracy.
Frankly, I've been surprised that I haven't seen this expressed in more editorials since the election.
OpinionJournal.com
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