Posted on 08/09/2006 10:40:08 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob
For the most accurate appraisal of the congressional elections in November, I refer you to Michael Barone. He has travelled to and well knows every congressional district in the nation. I heard him say (albeit a couple months ago) that nothing he has observed in his travels supports a democrat majority in either chamber.
"In any case those who are proclaiming the death of the Democrat party are being a tad premature, sad to say."
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I think the big question is why should the PUBS continue in the majority? What have they accomplished?
everyone in my list was a politician or an aspiring politician except for tiger woods.
however, if you pick 100 filthy rich at random and do the same for the middle and lower classes, I will take the filthy rich.
do you know why the media highlights any bad thing a rich person does ? It is because it is unusual and that makes in news.
Barone is indeed great. When I met him at CPAC a few years ago he recognized my last name and said it was the same name as a former mayor of my city, who served in the 1950s! I told him the mayor was a distant relative. Michael is a walking encyclopedia of political and election knowledge.
He is better than Charlie Cook, who didn't even know about Sen Prescott Bush's electoral record when I asked him about it. Said he wasn't from CT so he wouldn't know about CT elections. I was stunned. I should have told him he was no Michael Barone. ;-)
So do I.
Let it be said that Greenwich (Lamont's hometown) voted for Bush twice, as did New Canaan (Ann Coulter's very wealthy hometown), Darien, and Ridgefield.
Meanwhile those "salt of the earth blue collar Democrats" in West Haven, New Britain, New London, Middletown and Meriden continue to vote for the likes of Rose Delauro, Gore, and Kerry. Would be interesting to see how they voted in the primary, however.
Here here. I couln't agree more. EXCELLENT commentary. :)
BUMP
Indeed. Does that entitle them to public office? Certainly not. But should they be hated or despised becase they're rich? Nope. They pay most of the taxes. And that hate is one of the things that is so wrong with this new Libocrat party. Hate the wealthy and spread class envy to create the Socialist States of America. That is what the old dead Democrat party is now and that's all they care about. And I have no doubt they'd gladly see millions of Americans dead and buried by war or disaster if it would get them back in power. I have no doubt at all. They kill their babies with nary a glance, why wouldn't they allow the deaths of grown opposition if it got their power back? Dark and sinister and depressing but I believe there is adequate evidence the past 30 years to back up my belief.
Actually the traditional Democrats have invaded the body of the Republican Party and are progressively taking it to the left. They have reassigned the color red to the formerly traditional blue as part of the gradual re-branding.
The new party to be born will be a conservative party on the right. Parties change over time, but people don't. There is a growing need for a conservative party to represent us.
So, tell me again, why is the Dem party dead? Because Ned Lamont bought his nomination, that makes them crosswise from the American people?
I'd have thought that if there was a chance, it was more because they're moving leftward too quickly and too openly. Not that any of the ordinary guys I know who vote Dem seem to have much awareness of that.
However, I hope your assessment is correct.
How long will we wait for tat to happen? Or should we boot the moderates and let THEM form a new party.
And gas prices wouldn't be so high if we were building more refinaries, which Democrats oppose.
If we were using shale oil technology, which democrats oppose.
If we were building more nuke and clean coal power plants to reduce our need for imported oil, which Democrats oppose.
If we were drilling in ANWR, which would exceed the supply provided by the Prudhoe Bay supply, which Democrats oppose.
If we were using more wind power, like Californias wind farms that sit idle, which would reduce our need for oil for electricity production, and that oil could be added to oil for automobile supply, which Democrats oppose because some blind birds don't see them.
Or if we didn't force the U.S. oil companies to make over 120 DIFFERENT blends of unleaded and diesel gasoline, which adds at least $1.50 to the cost per gallon. The environmental lobby is MOST responsible for the price of gas. State and Federal tax per gallon is .40 to .50 cents per gallon. The average oil company profit per gallon is only about a nickel to a dime PER GALLON, compared ot that $1.50 or more per gallon it costs having to refine, store, transport, and keep seperate all those different blends of gas for different states. Senator Allen is pushing legislation which would eliminate over 100 of those blends from the market, allowing the oil companies to make just some of the cleaner burning ones, which would still operate on all vehicles still on the road today, that would drop the price per gallon by nearly half as soon as it's fully in place because the oil companies will be freed of BILLIONS of dollars per year in extra expense. But Democrats oppose it.
So the high gas prices are 100% the fault of perfectly good common sense enviromentally friendly legislation that the liberal Democrats, even as a minority, are able to block, because of their liberal media lap dogs. If anything, the liberal opposition to any kind of legislation that would incrase supply will be what effects the election. I believe that more Americans know the truth behind who is at fault for gas prices than is ever admitted in the media. It isn't the Republicans. :) That's just my opinion though.
Anytime I hear someone I know who is a Democrat complaining about high gas prices, I tell them we should build nuke and clean coal plants, use wind technology, drill in ANWR, and build more refinaries, and they always say "YEAH! That would help!" And then I tell them to call their Democrats they keep voting for and tell them to quit blocking the legislation that would make that happen.
I totally know what you're saying, but I think the gas price backlash will not be against Republicans, because it's clearly not the Pubs who block legislation that would ease the price and increase supply and decrease demand, and any half way intelligend voter will know that thanks to the blogs, and radio and emails and FOX news. :)
The left usually operate as parasites, hiding within hosts, always taking over something that once was good and sucking it dry. Now that we have them they're near impossible to shake. How many good words, such as liberal itself, have they hijacked and destroyed? How many colors do they hide behind? How many once great nations, businesses, and institutions have gone bankrupt from their selfish exploitation? I'm glad freerepublic zots them however they are relentless and may either take over or shut down this website someday.
Good post. Bump
The Democratic Party died in 1968 with the rejection of the New Deal/Great Society. With that rejection, the old Democratic coalition of the mid-20th Century came unglued. What it morphed into was the New Democrat Party, which stands for nothing, but is an amalgamation of amoral relativists, labor goons, crackheads, perverts, power lusters, malcontents, baby-killers, nihilists, appeasers, shiftless "victims", sociopaths, race-baiters, radical atheists, journalists, and other ne'er-do-wells of assorted social pathologies. And it represents about 48% of the electorate.
We've been around here long enough to know that the hildabeaste, if elected to POTUS, will definitely crash this beautiful brainchild of Jim Robinson in a heartbeat.
Many of us would also probably be arrested!
Great article, John!...
Hi Jim............FRegards
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