Posted on 10/07/2004 9:28:44 AM PDT by Cableguy
If Sept. 11 had never happened -- if debate about domestic policy had not been drowned out by the roar of war -- the potential domestic ramifications of this election would give it unusual nation-shaping power. To understand why is to understand some of the Democratic rage about the specter of a second term for George W. Bush.
He has a multifaceted agenda for weakening crucial components of the Democratic Party, factions that depend on cosseting by the federal government. Consider trial lawyers and organized labor.
John Kerry's selection of John Edwards as running mate was a blunder, and not just because Kerry probably will lose Edwards's North Carolina. The Edwards selection ratifies a provocative fact: trial lawyers have become the Democrats' most important faction. This has energized small-business owners, the self-employed, doctors and others who worry that they live one lawsuit away from ruin. Such people, now aroused, may propel tort reform that will curtail the windfalls that make trial lawyers the Democrats' largest source of contributions.
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Excellent article.
The simple truth.... Do we want a president that has learned the lessons of 9/11 and acted or a president that wants to take us back to 9/10 and make us reactive. Simple Choice.. All the trial lawyers in the world cannot defend John Kerry's senate voting record.
Furthermore, Social Security private investment accounts would simultaneously multiply investors and diminish both dependence on government and resistance to reduction of it. Among some prescient Democrats this pincer strategy provokes anxiety, and some of today's fury. -George Will
Remember that power corrupts. After the civil rights and antiwar movements, liberals captured almost all of our major institutions and wielded barely checked power for decades. Feeling that power waning is enraging them.
Go here to read it and you don't have to register....
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20041007.shtml
But, maybe the trial lawyers can defend us from future terrorist attacks by threatening to sue the terrorist into backruptcy. </sarcasm> More likely they will sue large corporations because they didn't make the work environment safe from terrosts attacks.
Good point and I think the President ought to bring it out in the debate... The Case against John Kerry...You can't sue the terrorists...
You can, but what would get? A goat, a worn out prayer rug, a compass that points to the east, an AK47, the third wife and an unread copy of the Koran?
Good point and I think the President ought to bring it out in the debate...
This would have been better placed in the VP debate as a challenge to Edwards.
The Dem party is being reduced to ONE special interest constituency......gay black trial lawyers...
bump
class warfare tactic is going the way of the dinosaur.
Be aware... They are fighting like the cornered 'rats that they are... They still have the information barons (MSM) in their pockets.
Thank you. I would never even give those Reds at the Washington Post the time of day, much less any registration information.
"And the elderly are devoted to big government: Social Security and Medicare by themselves are 33 percent of federal outlays.About 7 million members of the elderly cohort from that Democratic presidential era have died since the 2000 election."
Could this trend offset the growing demographic disadvantage that the Republicans face due to immigration?
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