Posted on 09/10/2004 12:14:19 AM PDT by Cableguy
There’s no one more panicky than a New York Democrat. Endowed with their party’s inferiority complex and a native neurosis, and overwhelmed by a show of Republican force in their backyard last week, members of the city’s Democratic establishment were among the first to hit the panic button on Senator John Kerry’s Presidential campaign. Now they’re among the hardest to reassure in the face of a surging President George W. Bush.
"When campaigns face difficult times, Republicans stay focused, and New York Democrats go into group therapy," lamented Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National Committeeman and major donor to the Democrats’ Presidential campaign. "We have to stay as focused as the Republicans, and as disciplined."
New York Democrats can, perhaps, be forgiven their doubts. After a summer of tight polls and high hopes, they got a glimpse, up close, of the Republicans’ smooth operation at the midtown convention, and they shuddered though the scenes that surrounded it. There were Missouri delegates feeding our homeless for the cameras, tan Floridians holding "Jeb ’08" signs and chanting "12 more years!" New York’s sports teams were displaced for delegates, and its nightclubs transformed into black-lit hangars for Washington mixers. Meanwhile, local pols felt sidelined by Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, grumbling that he monopolized their party’s televised "response" time.
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>When campaigns face difficult times, Republicans stay focused, and New York Democrats go into group therapy>
Kinda sums up my instincts about the philosophical differences between Republicans and 'rats.
Yeah, he reminded me of the Energizer Bunny.
Wrong. The Mets and Yankees both played the same week as the convention. The only sport team displaced was the New York Liberty basketball team, and they don't really count!
Meanwhile, officials like Representative Charles Rangel of Harlem are offering public, unsolicited criticism. "I had nothing to do with the response [to the Republican convention], and if I did I would be embarrassed, because the response was so tepid," he told The Observer. "I hope we’re back on the right track."
That's not true, either. Rangel was at Grant's Tomb during the convention, speaking for the Rats, and accusing the RNC of exploiting 9/11. I remember this because he didn't seem to mind exploiting Grant's Tomb for political purposes!
How can u disparage the great American sport of womans professional basketball?
Hell they pull in what maybe 2000 lesbians a night to watch them.
More spectators then most little league games.
If they were rational, they'd realize that Americans saw a week of serious people who seemed determined to protect America being taunted by a crowd of screaming, profane, spoiled children who (in one case, literally) were running around with their dresses over their heads. Who the heck would YOU trust to run the government after seeing that stark choice?
Comparing underwear stains, are they?
Stepping on one another's toes are they? Hmmm, sounds like Florida in New York.
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