Posted on 11/16/2004 5:53:24 AM PST by Honcho
Quagmire! Democrats and the Radical Left.
by Political_Man
During any polarized election the loser is bound to be distraught over the results, no matter which party actually ends up on the wrong side. After the 2004 Presidential Election, Democrats are understandably searching for answers. It’s natural to ask questions such as “What went wrong” or “What can we do next time” after losing several Senate seats and the White House for 4 more years.
What has not been natural in the post election assessment is the answers Democrats have come up with in response to those questions. Some have responded with the idea that Democrats weren’t wrong at all, that it was the intelligence of the voters that was lacking. Others have suggested that the system itself has been compromised and that Republicans actually cheated, giving Bush the election. Some Democrats have quipped half-heartedly (and half not) that the so-called “Blue States” succeed from the Union. And some Democrats have been so hysterical over the thought of 4 more years of a Bush Presidency that a psychologist in south Florida is offering therapy to those Kerry supports having a hard time “coping.”
In reality, the best way to figure out why Democrats lost on November 2nd is to look at their reaction on November 3rd. It’s not that Democrats have lost touch with Middle America as much as they have lost touch with reality. And the problem is that this reaction is no less ridiculous than the way the radical left was acting during the campaign. With conspiracy theories ranging from a supposed future draft to an entire movie based on the idea that President Bush conspired with terrorists, it’s down right frightening that 48% of the electorate considered Democrats a viable alternative at all.
This is a difficult world we live in and no one is suggesting there weren’t justifiable concerns with some of the decisions made by this President. But neither political party should allow radical elements to divert public discourse in favor of political expediency. The Democratic leadership should realize that the Michael Moores of the world have their own agendas and those agendas don’t always have the best interests of the country, or even the Democrat Party, at heart.
Loyal opposition should never equal blind opposition. By allowing popular but radical public figures to use the Democratic Party’s legitimacy to advance fanatical ideas, everything the party has fought for over the last 100 years is tainted.
The Democratic leadership should be careful. If they allow a radical element to take over the party they may find themselves in a political quagmire of trying purge the party --- of the only support they have left.
The third paragraph says it all.
Thanks for posting.
The word is "secede", not "succeed".
Shhhh. Don't tell them. :-)
If they continue down this path, they could leave the US with no viable alternative to the Republican Party. The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party of the 1960's. The Democratic Party today is drifting closer to the Socialist parties of Europe or even the Communist Party of Russia.
The Democrat party is obsolete. Many of the issues that the Democrat party was built upon are beyond political solutions. I believe it is governments duty to empower and assist the people. The Democrat party has become a new religion cloaked in the robes of "Tolerance and Diversity." When in reality it moves in the spirit of "Intimidation and Intrusion." I do not think the Democrat party is salvageable. A new independent party will emerge in the next 16 years. But beware, it will only be a repackaging of Socialism.
The only reason they garnered 48% of the vote is they were able to lie about who they are, what they've done, and what they intend to do.
Each election cycle will have more and more people getting there news off the internet and not relying on the Democratic Party cheerleaders of the MSM. Its also very important that we spread the word and are quicker at squashing such rumors as the "Draft Lie". That one was amazing in its brazenness and the MSM's openly ignoring the truth.
I'm sick of this "split country" crappola - voters are about half the population, or 25% of each side. Those that couldn't care enough about things to vote this time around are either apathetic or so far to the right or left they couldn't vote for anyone. So, slightly more of 25% of the population at any given time decides what 75% of the country does for 4 years.
[i]The word is "secede", not "succeed".
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And it's DEMOCRAT Party, not Democratic Party.
It’s not that Democrats have lost touch with Middle America as much as they have lost touch with reality. And the problem is that this reaction is no less ridiculous than the way the radical left was acting during the campaign. With conspiracy theories ranging from a supposed future draft to an entire movie based on the idea that President Bush conspired with terrorists, it’s down right frightening that 48% of the electorate considered Democrats a viable alternative at all.After the next State of the Union speech one of the topics of discussion should be what Bush did not say about a draft. That was pure scare tactic propaganda, and any journalist had to know it. But it was a straw for Kerry to grasp, and no journalist wanted him not to have that chance. So the fact that Kerry was nothing but a propagandist "wasn't news." And it still isn't.
The choice of the stories to report and those to bury is political. All protestation of "objectivity" to the contrary notwithstanding, journalism is politics.
Let the Damnocrats secede. It's a tradition of theirs. It's a tradition of our to kick their collective butts and knock 'em back a century or so for their trouble.
We have the guns and they have Kerry.
This ought to be fun!
Right.
Rush Limbaugh is commentary. Sean Hannity is commentary. They don't hide it.
The MSM is pretending to be something they are not. Objective!
The results of the last few elections seems to show why the liberals feel they NEED to be deceptive . . .
That swiftboat done sailed for Cambodia a long time ago. Right under the bridge they built from the 20th Century...back to the 19th. In the land where imaginary black churches burn and feminists throw rocks at sexually harrassed women. On past the bridge Camelot veered off of.
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