Posted on 05/30/2005 6:35:52 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The Republicans have had the Democrats on the defensive. They have won seven presidential victories in the last 10 elections since 1968; control of the House since 1994; and, recently, control of the Senate, both with increasing majorities. The Democrats have not broken 50 percent in any presidential election since 1976 or 48.5 percent in the six congressional elections since 1994. They have not won a majority of the white votes since 1964, and their geographic base has come to be concentrated on both coasts. You can fly over virtually the entire country without flying over states that voted Democratic.
This Republican resurgence has upended the traditional rule in politics that incomes, jobs, and economic outlook are decisive: "It's the economy, stupid." If it were, the Democrats should have coasted to victory in the 2000 election on the back of the boom of the Clinton years, and in 2004 on the developing squeeze on the middle and working classes from slow income growth and fast costs for healthcare, energy, and education that have led many families to feel they are falling behind, no matter how hard they work. The average two-income family earns far more than did most single-income families a generation ago, yet they have less discretionary income and savings than the latter because virtually all of their higher earnings go to keeping their families in the middle class, especially in homes near good and safe schools.
The Democratic Party has long cast itself as the party of the little guy fighting against the party of big business, privilege, and wealth. So why has it been unable to capitalize on these anxieties and connect its version of progressivism with American life? The roots of disenchantment lie in the 1960s and 1970s....
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"You can fly over virtually the entire country without flying over states that voted Democratic."
I love that.
They've done it by abandoning conservatism and going 100% moderate. They don't represent us any more, so who cares if the Republican Party controls Washington for years? We're in for more of the same.
Huh? They've gone 200% LIBERAL. Bush + Republican Senate + Republican House of Representatives has increased government and spending at such a dizzying rate it would make FDR + LBJ + Supreme Socialists of All Time envious.
Democrats haven't succeeded because they don't need to. Bush and Republicans have hijacked their agenda. Today FDR/LBJ would be proud of the Republicans.
Man, is that ever the case.The Ds act entitled in everything they say and do.How dare anyone question their superiority.They demean and villify all who disagree with them.
Makes it real easy to vote Republican.
Eeek! A moderate!
Yeah? Uh...there's the pesky little problem of the borders. When are they going to get to that?
The republicans have not been a conservative party since before the depression in the 1930's. I lived thru Eisenhower, Nixon and Rockefeller. None were conservative in the contemporary sense.
Today's republican party, in its elected officials at the state and local level, and in the Congress, is much more conservative than it was 50 years ago.
Consider, WF Buckley Jr. was on the FAR FAR Right in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Now, he seem somewhat moderate to me. Taking over the R's from the inside out is a process that started just before 1964. It has at least 20 more years before it is complete.
Despite their current success Republicans and conservatives are waning, just like in other countries in the West. Like Limbaugh said after the last election, the story isn't that the Democrats lost it's that they did so well given what they believe. There are various reasons for the decline of conservatism but the big ones are the influence of the mass-media and growth and acceptance of multiculturalism. The left is importing a new people to get the results it wants, and they have the power to force their opponents to assist in their own destruction.
And who cares about Morty Zuckerman's opinion, anyway?
Yep - the only difference between Rs and Ds is that the Rs will probably get us to the Socialistic state at a later date. Other than that, they spend money like drunken, out-of-control sailors. It is pathetic and sickening.
Good point. You are right. When we had a fiercely conservative champion running in '64 - Barry Goldwater - he was humiliatingly defeated.
Char
George Soros = MoveOn.Org + Howard Dean = eventual disappearance from the political scene. Their BIG PROBLEM is that Killery can see what is happening, and she's planning to be the "lady on a white horse," saving "her fine party" from extinction.
HER BIG PROBLEM is that she has been too closely associated with Soros for at least a decade, and she needs his money.
I'm happy to watch their combined dilemmas.
Char :)
He is a columnist among hundreds of columnists. You could therefore make the same remark about everything posted which is written by a columnist.
If every reader said, "Who cares what this writer thinks?" - no one would post anything that any columnist wrote!.......or is it that you only care what specific writers think?..........or just don't care specifically what Zuckerman thinks? If that's the case, there is an easy solution. Just don't click on any articles with his name on them. Make sense?
Char :)
bttt
It's definitely more conservative than it was twenty-five years ago. We didn't even become pro life until 1980, and today we're fighting the use of embryos for research.
Reagan did invade Grenada to stop Russia from completing construction of an air base there, but I doubt that he would have announced a doctrine of preemtive regime change.
Reagan would have done whatever is necessary to defend this nation, just as the current President Bush is.
You've worded that strangely: "doctrine of preemptive regime change", but I take it you find something inherently wrong in the Bush Doctrine. Please elaborate.
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