Posted on 02/18/2007 7:26:49 PM PST by neverdem
THESE are balmy days on the American left — genuine, uncharacteristic sunniness unpolluted by some fluky political climate change. There is even talk of a — stutter, clear-throat, perish-thought — liberal resurgence.
Or, treading gingerly, a “liberal moment.”
“Hell, ya, this is a liberal moment,” exults Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” — and yes, he even calls himself a “liberal” writer, eschewing the sleeker “progressive” stage name that many lefties are preferring these days. He declares this “liberal moment” loud and proud. Until the inevitable qualifier comes.
“A potentially liberal moment,” Mr. Frank says, “assuming that liberal politicians can seize the moment and get beyond their usual plague of incompetence.”
Oh, snap.
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A Gallup survey last month found that Democrats led Republicans by 34 percent to 31 percent in party affiliation — the largest Democratic advantage since the Clinton administration (34 percent of respondents identified themselves as independents).
By the same token, voters aged 18 to 25 are far more Democratic than previous generations, according to a 2006 survey by Pew Research. And the ratio of Democratic voters who describe themselves as “liberal Democrats” (32 percent) has risen steadily while the share of “conservative Democrats” has dropped (23 percent). Four years earlier, 27 percent of Democrats identified as conservatives, 26 percent as liberals.
The right is seen as divided, demoralized and possibly saddled with a top duo of Republican presidential candidates — John McCain and Rudy Giuliani — who could be unnervingly palatable to moderates and even liberals on certain issues (climate change and campaign finance for Mr. McCain; abortion and gay rights for Mr. Giuliani). A third, Mitt Romney, was just four years ago elected governor of a state — Massachusetts — that many Republicans regard as the political equivalent of a Superfund site.
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Can Gallup explain why, they then weight their polls with a 7-10 % favor to Democrats?
...intentional, even.
To quote Crash Davis in Bull Durham: The moment's over.
LOL!
Yeeeeeehaw!You got that right.
Meanwhile the Washington crowd all think that we conservatives are a bunch of ignorant provincials out here in the hinterlands outside the beltway.
The Repblicans we send to congress are weak, for the most part, and think they need to become more like the Washington Liberal Aristocracy to stay in orifice ( I couldn't help it). Result: RINOs. The RINOS went to one too many liberal cocktail parties, when they should have been going to piggly wiggly and the shootin' range.
I hate it when the Slimes makes me laugh.
I don't care how many of them there are THEY'RE WRONG.
It's sad but true that the word "liberal" and the word "traitor" have become essentially synonomous.
A Liberal moment??? That must be similar to a 'Senior moment'????
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