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Sharpton: Clinton 'Killed the Democratic Party'
NewsMax.com ^
| January 9, 2004
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 01/09/2004 12:32:24 PM PST by Carl/NewsMax
The Democratic Party is dead, presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday. And it's Bill Clinton's fault.
Launching into a tirade against Democratic centrists during an interview on Washington, D.C. TV station WJLA, Sharpton complained that's it's been all downhill for Democrats since Mr. Clinton took over ten years ago.
"Bill Clinton won, the party didn't," railed the radical reverend. "And Bill Clinton may not have won if it had not been for Perot."
"That is my point - centrism killed this party," he insisted. "We didn't regain the Congress in 1998. . . In 2000 we lost it all. In 2002 we were demolished, we were demolished. We lost everything as a party."
Sharpton said Democrats certainly couldn't do any worse if they nominated him for president, since the party seems to be flat-lining already.
"People are saying, 'Will Sharpton, the Progressive, kill the party?' The party's dead. I've come to help start the resurrection," he announced.
Though Sharpton's comments are among the most politically explosive uttered during the presidential campaign so far - with the exception of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who played the Sharpton audio during his Friday broadcast - the reverend's outburst has gone unreported.
TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; blame; clinton; dnc; sharpton; stophillary; tirade; x42
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To: Carl/NewsMax; doug from upland
Clinton killed the party. So is Rev Al the one who shot the deputy?
Hey Doug - here's the DFU song for the day......
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:29:59 PM PST
by
11B3
(Democratic Socialists of America: 78 members in Congress. Treason? YES.)
To: r9etb
Too true.
I would say he killed it because he brought them to the so-far irreversible point of selling their soul. They had to decide between the slightest, meagerest remnants of decency, principle, and morality or just power.
And we know what they chose.
Dan
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:31:06 PM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: r9etb
They realized only too late that Clinton sees politics as an extension of his sex life, and in that they were no different from Monica Lewinsky. They just got it in a different orifice.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:33:42 PM PST
by
AZLiberty
(Always lurk on the Right side of life -- FreeRepublic.com)
To: The KG9 Kid
Sharpton is the smartest guy they've got. Pathetic, but true.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:34:05 PM PST
by
kennedy
To: BibChr
I would say he killed it because he brought them to the so-far irreversible point of selling their soul. They had to decide between the slightest, meagerest remnants of decency, principle, and morality or just power. I don't know ... I can't help but think that the underpinnings of the problem really are sexual. For Clinton, I'm almost certain that this is true -- if you look at his methods, they can only be described as attempts at seduction.
And the Democrats come across as those poor hapless women who end up with jerks who they latch onto out of some passing fancy, and stay with them because they hope against hope that this indiscretion will be the last.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:38:02 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: blau993
Al would stand out in sharp relief as the leftist were he not in a field of leftists.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:40:10 PM PST
by
luvbach1
To: Carl/NewsMax
Carl, he's right. And if the current Clinton strategy of destroying Dean so Clarke can run the Clarke/Clinton 2004 ticket succeeds, the Democrats will cease to exist as a party outright.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:40:13 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(I slam, you slam, we all slam, for Islam !)
To: Poohbah
Are we all gonna die? And does Mad Dawgg still want a pony?" You are damn right my friend!
No one does anything until I get what I want!
I want a job that pays me six figures because I went to college for four years.
I want six months paid vacation, free medical and dental.
I want all the illegal aliens to be rounded up and sent home, no matter what the cost.
I want lower taxes and more Medicare!
I want Social Security to pay 10K a month when I retire.
I want NAFTA repealed and all off shoring stopped immediately.
I want Cheap Plasma TVs and digital radio.
Oh yeah and I want a PONY, NOW!
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:40:22 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: highlander_UW
I don't think God is going to help him resurrect the party of murdered babies. Nor do I think that divine intervention will rescue the party that worships at the same murderous altar of human sacrifice as Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and Ho Chi Minh did.
Thing is, they won't give up until they're all dead or we're all in chains.
69
posted on
01/09/2004 1:41:44 PM PST
by
Noumenon
(I don't have enough guns and ammo to start a war - but I do have enough to finish one.)
To: Rummyfan
You are right. He's the modern day prophet of the dem. party. IF they will heed his advice, and realize that clinton was nothing more than the PROFIT of the dem. party.
To: Michael.SF.
Nor I
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:48:34 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
...driving a stake through its heart...Even the nomination of Al would not accomplish the above. And if the votes break their way from the ongoing millions of potential new voters resulting from the "amnesty by another name," in a few years the Dems may not only get a new lease on life, they may become the permanent majority party.
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:48:54 PM PST
by
luvbach1
To: nina0113
Please cast a vote in the VA primary for me too.
I live in Joisey but that ought not matter in a dem primary. The more votes the better, right!!!
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:49:47 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Hmmmm...If Clinton killed the Dems by forcing liberals to defend his centrism, could Bush kill the Pubs by forcing conservatives to defend HIS centrism?
Nope. Two reasons. Conservatives are not as hypocritical as the Garafolo liberals, and it wasn't Clinton's centrism alone that killed the Dems, it was his damaging of America's trust (and not just the lying about sex thing).
Bush doesn't have that particular problem.
To: CyberAnt
I'm not supporting Al Sharpton .. If the Dems get squeemish about Dean and it looks like he might not get the nomination, I'm becoming a HUGH Sharpton supporter till the primaries are over.
To: Carl/NewsMax
Gee ~ how can the rev say that ~ everyone that knows clintoon was our first black president. *sigh*
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:54:31 PM PST
by
blackie
To: Carl/NewsMax
There was a prominent Democratic pollster who opined that the Democratic Party "had been taken over by a confederacy of gangsters".
Rev Al is just seeing the same results through a different lens.
Semper Fi,
To: BibChr
Right in the broad strokes, but completely ****** in the details.
To: Carl/NewsMax
The press believes it's own excuses, but choosing not to cover Sharpton's comments is still amazing. What reason could they have? Must be a humdinger.
Would the press cover Dole if he said the Republican party was dead? Bet on it. Two standards, one for liberals, one for conservatives. Truth can be scary...
Though Sharpton's comments are among the most politically explosive uttered during the presidential campaign so far - with the exception of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who played the Sharpton audio during his Friday broadcast - the reverend's outburst has gone unreported.
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posted on
01/09/2004 2:06:08 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: Carl/NewsMax
He's prolly p*ssed 'cause x42 won't return his calls...
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posted on
01/09/2004 2:07:58 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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