Posted on 11/21/2004 7:08:14 PM PST by Former Military Chick
According to The New York Times, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, reflecting on her party's recent losses in the presidential, Senate and House elections, asked: ``How did a party that is filled with people with values -- and I am a person with values -- get tagged as the party without values?''
As one who was raised a Democrat and became a Republican 10 years ago, I would like to answer Napolitano's question as honestly as she posed it.
Napolitano, your party does indeed have many people with values in it. But the Democratic Party is no more representative of the average Democrat's values than the National Council of Churches is of the average Protestant's values. Both are far to the left of their membership.
Here is the Democratic Party as most Americans, including this John F. Kennedy liberal -- a New York City-born and -raised, Jewish, Ivy League-educated intellectual who lives in Los Angeles -- see it.
To most Americans, Michael Moore is a Marxist who has utter contempt for most of his fellow Americans, who goes abroad and tells huge audiences how stupid and venal his country is, and in his dishonest propaganda film, portrays the American military as callous buffoons. Yet, this radical was given the most honored seat at the Democratic Party convention in Boston, next to former President Jimmy Carter.
To most Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-baiting demagogues. Yet they are heroes to the Democratic Party. Most Americans do not see their country as the bigoted and racist nation regularly depicted by both black and white Democratic leaders.
To most Americans, a man who wears women's clothing to work is a pathetic person in need of psychotherapy. To the Democratic Party, he is a man whose cross-dressing is merely another expression of multiculturalism. The California legislature, controlled by Democrats, passed a law prohibiting employers from firing a man who shows up to work wearing women's clothing.
To most Americans, Eminem is a vulgar nihilist who poisons young Americans' minds. To John Kerry, he was a man whose anti-Bush hate video was worthy of endorsement.
To most Americans, obscenity-filled evenings should be restricted to R-rated films or a Las Vegas comedy act, not a major party's fund raiser attended by its candidates for U.S. president. To Democrats, those who object to such evenings are regarded as judgmental, hypocritical and narrow minded.
To most Americans, Hollywood stars are regarded as terrific to watch in films but also as narcissistic ingrates when, between private jet trips to Cuba and Cannes, they express their contempt for traditional America. That the Democrats have a veritable monopoly on support from folks such as Sean Penn and Robert ''Castro-is-a-great-leader'' Redford may give Democrats a heady feeling, but for tens of millions of Americans, it merely reinforces their belief that the Democratic Party shares Hollywood's values.
To most Americans, the American military is not only heroic; it is regarded as more important to safeguarding freedom than any other human institution, including the ACLU, the United Nations or the university, to cite three major Democratic Party affiliates. To virtually the entire Left, which includes the Democratic Party, the military is, at best, a necessary evil. Otherwise, the overriding doctrine is ''Make love, not war.'' That is why Harvard still refuses to allow ROTC training -- and it is unlikely that either of the Massachusetts senators even finds that wrong, let alone as reprehensible as most Americans do.
To most Americans, gays are fellow Americans who happen to be homosexual and who should be accorded the same respect that any fellow American is accorded. But most Americans also believe that America should retain the millennia-old definition of marriage as man-woman. They regard liberal judges who take it upon themselves to redefine marriage with contempt. And these judges are identified with the Democrats.
Whatever their views on abortion and abortion rights, the vast majority of Americans view the abortion of a viable fetus/baby (partial-birth abortion) as immoral. Kerry and his fellow Democrats repeatedly voted against a ban on this practice.
Napolitano, I hope that this short list answers your question about how it is that your party has gotten tagged as ''the party without values.'' Indeed, the real question is: How has this party retained so many people who have traditional American values?
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, columnist and author of four books, including Think a Second Time.
©2004 Creators Syndicate
To me a democrat is merely a communist who refuses to identify him/herself as such.
Democrats: The "Left/Behind" Party
Old joke:
Q: Do you know the difference between a liberal and a Communist?
A: The Communist knows what he's doing.
"the new dims talking point: use the word "value" at least 3 times in every sentence."
And they still don't know what it means
I thought this was a pretty good article nearly two weeks ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275018/posts
Excellent article!
Uhh, Dems? It's the TREASON, stupid!
I have only recently found his Radio Show and listen to it whenever I can.
Dennis, I hate to tell you this, but Janet Napolitano fits perfectly into the democrat party just as it is.
Is soon to be unemployed.
They must have required redford to wear a blind fold when he visited Cuba. The place is a wreck. The only places that have been kept up are the tourist areas. The must be his dream for America, only he will be able to keep and maintain his personal real estate.
In the final fiscal crisis, the left-wing wackos in the legislature will still refuse to cut spending even when the state lacks the money to pay the bills. At this point the state will issue IOU's to vendors and some employees as the once great Golden State reaches near-bankruptcy. It's a 50-50 call whether the legislature will actually cut spending to avoid bankruptcy or will shirk their responsibility for political gain and force the state to declare bankruptcy. The state could end up under the fiscal direction of a bankruptcy court, which will force the necessary but unpopular spending cuts. I expect this final fiscal crisis to hit California in the middle of 2006. This is what Democrats and socialists do to a free enterprise economy: they wreck it with excessive taxation, regulation, and government spending. It will take some hard times in California to teach some of the mindless Democrat hordes to switch over to Republican free enterprise thinking. Perhaps the state can rebound by 2012. I still spend the winters in San Diego, but the state has changed so much that I don't want to spend the whole year there anymore. Well, I wish Pittsburgh good luck.
According to The New York Times, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, reflecting on her party's recent losses in the presidential, Senate and House elections, asked: ``How did a party that is filled with people with values -- and I am a person with values -- get tagged as the party without values?''
It depends on your definition of values Janet, but nice try anyway.
I had done a scan and your article did not show up, however what is most interesting is why the Miami Herald is posting it on their website and do not put the "previously posted date", it had todays date.
I was figuring that it must have just shown up in some newspapers...it takes them a while to use some syndicated columns, I guess.
To most Americans, Michael Moore is a Marxist who has utter contempt for most of his fellow Americans, who goes abroad and tells huge audiences how stupid and venal his country is, and in his dishonest propaganda film, portrays the American military as callous buffoons. Yet, this radical was given the most honored seat at the Democratic Party convention in Boston, next to former President Jimmy Carter. To most Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-baiting demagogues. Yet they are heroes to the Democratic Party.Out of the park home run.
To most Americans, gays are fellow Americans who happen to be homosexual mentally diseased and who should be accorded the same respect that any fellow American is accorded. They should be quarentined if found to be dangerous to those around them and should be encouraged to find treatment for their disease
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