Posted on 07/29/2004 6:05:54 AM PDT by Redbob
Democrats filling the hotels, sidewalks, cafes, bars and restaurants of Boston and swarming through the FleetCenter this week have a message they desperately want the rest of America to hear. We are not liberal.
These politicos will spend the bulk of this week insisting that the Democratic Party is the one that represents the values and ideals of Middle America. The Republicans, they will say, are the ones whose beliefs are so far beyond the norm that they simply cannot be trusted.
Even the City of Boston is in on the act. The city, its boosters and local journalists are using the Democratic National Convention as their opportunity to tell the rest of the nation how normal, how just like the rest of the country, Boston and the Bay State are. Living in New Hampshire, which actually does share the values of Middle America, this all might seem a little odd. But they mean it. And they mean to make you believe it too.
Unfortunately for them, the Boston Globe published a poll of delegates to the convention. What they found was a group of individuals whose beliefs on a wide range of issues differ greatly from those held by most Americans.
62 percent support gay marriage, and 83 percent support civil unions.
At the time the Iraq War began, 80 percent opposed it. Today, 95 percent do.
86 percent think the United States is not winning the War on Terror.
89 percent support laws to restrict the availability of firearms. These are not mainstream American views, which is why the Democratic Party has gone to great lengths to control the message and the messengers. If party leaders can keep the crazy uncles stuffed in the attic until after the election, this attempt to fool the American people into believing that the Democratic Party is a “Main Street” party might just work. But those crazy uncles usually have a habit of finding a open window and screaming at the neighbors at the most inopportune times.
Editorial Page Editor Andrew Cline is at the convention
They've already let Howard Dean and Theresa Kerry run loose!
They're almost as bad as reporters!
You would think the liberals in the audience would be upset to hear how their chosen candidate is NOT one of them...
If the people in the audience really believed the crap Edwards was telling them then they would vote Republican.
It's unbelievable how they can redefine every word in the English language and rewrite 10,000 years of history, yet they can't simply call themselves liberal.
You're liberal! Just say it. Liberal liberal liberal.
Next time you talk to a lib who is for Kerry, ask them if they realized they support both the patriot act and the war in Iraq. (That's the Kerry platform)
What gets me is their "talking-points" approach to the accusation that Kerry supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - Without exception, Kerry apologists state,
"But John Kerry was only a U.S. Senator when HE supported the war; he didn't actually have the power to go to war.
George Bush is the President, and (somehow) that makes all the difference!"
No they are not lberals....they are supporting a Communist.
And I'd like to know howcome we're not hearing about the true loonies, the demonstrators in Boston for whom the Dimocratic Party is not nearly far enough Left?
In short every liberal wacko in the country has showed up. But they're all steaming because no one is allowed to get on the podium and start a clenched-fist, frothing at the mouth speech denouncing Bush, and Enron, and Halliburton, and...well you know the drill.
Hopefully, they'll be so steamed they'll vote for Ralphie!
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