Posted on 09/17/2004 6:21:53 AM PDT by crushkerry
You joke, but many of architects of Bush's foreign policy, mainly Paul Wolfowitz, worked for Scoop Jackson.
We realized that we were(in fact)REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess you saw the light, and it was Brilliant.
I once called myself a conservative democrat. I think some called them "blue dogs". Now, I just a conservative, mad as Zell.
Thanks to my niece's husband, and Rush.
Did you remember the late Lawrence McDonald, a Democrat from Georgia? He was also another great American who was killed by the Soviets when they shot down the KAL flight in 1983. I only wish there were more like him.
They went the way of IMB Selectric typewriters.
He gave a speach at the Republican Convention in New York.
To my way of thinking, the Democratic party has lost the fragile alliances crufted during the New Deal era of ethnic minorities, labor, disaffected unemployed, Agriculture, etc.
What FDR called the "Malefactors of Great Wealth" are still around, but the common enemy of totalitarian socialism - Nazzism/Communism tended to unite republican and democrat at least on the foreign policy level. In the 1960's, radical activism took over the Democratic party - Scoop Jackson morphed into Tom Hayden - consider the vitriol directed against Lyndon Johnson! The far left that drives the issues is inherently anti-family, and it shows. Perhaps "they" mean well, but replacing local control with a secular, global group-think doesn't play well outside of academia. Also, in a lot of ways, the US hasn't really recovered from the Kennedy assasination, a pivotal event in US history.
The Vietnam war and social spending literally bankrupt the country, continuing loss of cultural behavioral standards (not that i was immune either) the decline of manufacturing and an increasingly selfish, un-educated electorate. The US will endure as it always has, but it takes work, we can't coast along on our legacy.
Sane democrats have not gone anywhere. They are winning elections right and left. They have just changed their names. Now they call themselves republicans.
The people calling themselves democrats are actually commies.
Todays reps are yesterdays dems and todays dems are yesterdays commie's.
DemoncRATS hatred is because the Pres represents 180 degrees opposite of all that they offer. Typical example of the plate the demoncRATS serve is the morally corrupt, ethically challenged clintoons (who are really cartoons) and the likes of a cowardly, treasonous mannequin who thinks he's a hero because he won some medals and then threw them away, otherwise known as the ketchupman. Sheesh! I sure would like to buy ketchupman for what he's worth and then sell him for what he thinks he's worth. I'd make billions.
I don't know if anyone else is sensing this, but I have never been more concerned for President Bush's safety. Certainly, there are any number terrorist organizations that would like to assassinate the president, but what concerns me most is the over-the-top hate that liberals are expressing for the president. In their little "end justifies the means" world, I would not discount an attempt by some crazed liberal lunatic on the president's life. God help us! Pray for the president!
Yes, you're right, there were sane Democrats in previous times, including Sam Nunn. I was thinking of current members, so I was stuck with Zell Miller, Joe Leiberman, and Evan Bayh.
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