Democrats are wasting time

Denver Post ^ | 12/15/03 | Walter Cronkite

[Semper Paratus]

Winning is the only thing and at all costs is Clinton's real legacy to his party.

[Uncle George]

Joe Lieberman will prevail over the "vile eight" when all is proved in Irac.

[LibFreeUSA]

-"Others believe the party's strength is the vast middle class to whom Bill Clinton so successfully appealed,"

You mean the middle class that he successfully 'lied-to', and then 'seduced' (eff'd) them...

[international american]

Walter is upset, which of course, makes the rest of us happy.

[gridlock]

Democrats believe in their bones that central planning of the message is the best way to reach the voters. In reality, the rough-and-tumble of the primary campaign is the very best way to identify the themes that resonate with the voters and determine who will be able to exploit them. The Democrats whine about fratricide, but it is the very best thing for their chances.

Of course, their chances are about as slim as can be, but that is not because of the primary process. Somehow Dubya, stupid as he is (said with a smile), seems to snooker them time and again through superior strategery.

[MamaLucci]

Walter Cronkite, democrat shill.

[Verginius Rufus]

Walter leaves out of the equation the mainstream media's support for the Democrats, which must be worth $100 million. The Republicans need twice as much money to level the playing field.

[Ditto]

Do the Democrats maintain the Clinton focus on middle-class voters or go back to the farmer-labor-oriented policies of FDR and Truman?

Good advice Walter. Between the two "groups" you have about 15% of the the voting population, and the rats won't even get all of that.

[js1138]

The democrats can platform till the cows come home, but their only hope is that something terrible will happen that can easily be blamed on Bush.

[vladog]

"Waste time", is what Dem's do best!

[Valin]

Confusion to the enemy!

[metalboy]

[Valin]

While I don't want him to win the election, and WON'T be supporting him, I do hope he wins the nomination(for the sake of the two party system). Some adults need to take back that party.

[IncPen]

I don't understand why the biggest battles are fought over the smallest things.

The smallest thing, in this instance, is a Democrat's chance of being elected President

[ImpeachandRemove]

The Democrats long ago abandoned the farm vote. Patrick Kennedy, when he headed up the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee in 2000, bluntly wrote off the rural vote by saying that the Democrats could win both the White House and Congress without them. When you look at the county by county map of the 2000 race, you can see that Gore carried almost nothing outside the metropolitan areas.

Long ago, what united farmers and labor was monetary policy. Both favored (and continue to favor) a weaker dollar. Clinton + Rubin put drove the dollar relentlessly higher, a zero-sum game that created a stock market bubble but devastated both manufacturing (see the steel industry and aluminum industries for examples of this collapse) and farm commodity producers.

Farmers now have little in common with a Democrat party that favors consumers over producers and exemplifies "city values" like gay marriage, partial-birth abortion, and gun control. The labor picture is more complex, because the labor leadership has largely abandoned looking out for their workers in favor of left-wing ideology. This is how we get the sickening picture of labor leaders promoting policies like the Kyoto protocols that would throw their own members (coal miners, for example) out of their jobs.

[Snardius]

Joe Lieberman will prevail over the "vile eight" when all is proved in Irac.

With all the trouble in the Middle East is this country stupid enough to elect a jew as president?

[playball0]

Stupid enough yes. Just not this time.

[Mr. Bird]

Good grief, primary campaigns are always about party fratricide. Cronkite knows this, of course, but wants his team to play nice and not give away the family secrets to the opposition.

Walter is one old coot that will make me smile when he ceases breathing.

[okie01]

"Walter Cronkite, democrat shill."

With every issue, Uncle Walter's weekly columns reveal how terribly shallow is the man's thinking.

The Man Who Molded American Opinion in the sixties and seventies stands revealed as a petty partisan intellectual milquetoast.