I sense we are witnessing the beginning of the destruction of the Democratic party. Heheheh.
Norquist is correct about the trial lawyers, but I believe he has overlooked the all-powerful Government Unions - this is where the labor unions' power base has transferred. And the teachers unions and the huge NEA, which has nothing to do with real education, it is all about money for their union in order to “vote” their candidate into office, in this case Kerry...like trial lawyers, they vote their pocket book, not for America.
If this was part of Kerry's calculation in picking Edwards, it's a bit of a no-brainer. The labor unions are shrinking in numbers and dollars, whereas the trial lawyers are increasing their earnings, some of which they contribute to the Dems.
I think most people who pay attention knows that the labor unions have not been the Demorats power base for a while. They still get lots of votes from them, but the unions like the blacks have started to figure out that the Demorats are all about Demorats and one one else.
And, that amounts to peanuts!
Has Norquist taken a break from kissing the butts of Islamists long enough to think this through and write it?
And, when these 'Establishment' Democrats step into the voting booth, may we count on their support, there behind the closed curtain, as they make a checkmark beside the Bush/Cheney Electors' entry on the ballot?
But that would be counting on lifelong Democrats to be doing the right thing. Always an uncertain proposition.
Even if sKerry/Fratboy win (*GAAK*) Shrillary will get what she wants...first biologically female Chief Justice.
So exclusive that he gave the same interview to FNC twenty minutes later.
Republicans are going to be in for a big surprise on election day if the Democrats are able to get out a large voter turnout! Norquist's reasoning if perfectly logical but not very realistic, in my opinion.
Tune in to C-SPAN any morning, and you'll hear every stripe of Democratic thinking from far-leftists to blacks, gays, and especially nearly all women callers. They HATE GWB with a passion, and would vote for anybody to see a Democrat win the White House in November, and perhaps even one or both houses of the Congress.
President Bush should be running scared, but from what I read in Human Reports recently, mostly liberal Repulicans are going to be prime time speakers at the convention. Is Sen. Rick Santorum going to be able to speak? If not, Pennsylvania may go Democratic. How about Senators Mike DeWine and George Voinovich of Ohio. No Republican has won the White House without carrying Ohio. Both states are up for grabs, and all it will take is for a large turnout of Democratic voters.
I stopped listening to Norquist ever since he, as an advocate of Reagean on the 10 dollar bill, said that the 10 was the only bill picturing somoene who is not a president.
Except from CFIF ORG
About Edwards and Trial Lawyers;
Those lawsuits are estimated to cost every man, woman and child in this country $650 a year, but in the world of John Edwards and his cronies at the trough, it is infinitely better for us to give that money to trial lawyers than spend it on SUVs, which may roll over on us, or Big Macs, which may make us fat.
Grover missed something, to no FREEPERS surprise the NEA endorsed Kerry/Edwards today
"By choosing John Edwards over Dick Gephardt, the Democrats today transferred power in their party from the labor unions to the trial lawyers. Like Kerry, Edwards has a nasty record of voting against taxpayers," Norquist explained. "In six short years he has amassed an anti-taxpayer record rivaling both Kerry and the other Massachusetts senator, Kennedy. Edwards voted against the 2001 and 2003 tax relief plans, voted 12 times against repealing the marriage penalty, 8 times against repealing the Death Tax, against the per-child tax credit, against suspending the gasoline tax, and is an ardent protectionist. In the last six years, if a policy was good for taxpayers, Edwards was on the wrong side every time," said Norquist....and we should be surprised why? ;')
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent