Posted on 02/06/2005 4:15:59 AM PST by ricoshea
The Democratic Party died yesterday after a long, painful lack of direction. Born in 1792, it was the second-oldest political party in the world, after the Tories of Great Britain. But it suffered decline for years and finally succumbed to complications brought on by elitism and anger. The cause of death was officially attributed to an obstruction lodged in its leadership. Okay, as Mark Twain might say, reports of the Democratic Party's death are premature. But come Feb. 12, they won't be.
That's the day Howard (The Scream) Dean is likely to win the job of national Dem boss. It's also the day the party ceases to be a viable alternative to George Bush.
How did it happen that the party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton became irrelevant to the majority of Americans? How could the "party of the common man," as it first called itself more than 200 years ago, become out of power and out of touch?
The easy answer is that, like all social nightmares, this one happened because good people did nothing as the virus spread. So while there is much dissent from the party faithful, most of it is in private.
In public, there is silence from those who know that Dean will take the party over the cliff and into an abyss of fringe liberalism that has no foundation in the American populace. Dean and the extremists he represents shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves Democrats. Deaniacs is what they are.
Petty personal feuds are part of the problem. Martin Frost, the moderate former congressman from Texas, had a shot at defeating Dean until Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, piped up. Pelosi is reportedly still steamed that Frost challenged her for the House post two years ago, so she helped clear the path for Dean.
Pelosi, of course, is a charter member of the Dean-Michael Moore wackadoo wing. She used her talk after Bush's State of the Union speech to call for a "timetable" for quitting Iraq, an idea that borders on the insane. You don't have to support the war to recognize that telling the terrorists when we're leaving is an invitation to disaster.
Dean's rise comes with a new lie about him - that he's really a moderate. That bit of false labeling, based on his record as Vermont governor, conveniently overlooks his far-left campaign for President. It's that race that gave him the prominence for the national party job.
It's worth remembering how bad a candidate Dean was. The Scream came after the Iowa caucus, where Dean finished a dismal third, with only 18% of the vote. The first to declare himself a candidate, he was the front-runner for a year and led the pack in fund-raising, much of it raised on the Internet.
But when the first votes were counted, John Kerry and John Edwards smashed him, with Kerry getting 38% of the vote and Edwards 32%. Dean went psycho on TV that night and never recovered. A month later, he was out of the race, having not won a single primary.
He was too far left for primary voters, the cream of the liberal crop. But now the 447 internal electors think he should be the face, voice and chief operator of the whole party. That tells you something about the state chairs and other special-interest shills supporting Dean.
His victory would be a loss not only for real Democrats, but for America, too. Bush has many strengths, especially on the war on terror, but he is flirting with extreme ideology by supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
A credible opposition party is crucial to keep the needle in the middle on such issues. But Democrats apparently have decided to fight extremism with more extremism.
May they rest in peace.
Now as to this little insert:
"....but he is flirting with extreme ideology by supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage."
Imagine that.....the majority of Americans are extreme in their ideology in wanting to maintain a definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
Nothing has changed other than the iron curtain communists have been replaced by western European socialists.
It amazes me when the author can hit the nail on the head with his take on Dean and the Democratic party, but then show no understanding about the gay issue.
I see nothing extreme about trying to stop perverts from expanding themselves into our schools our homes and families.
Fortunately, due to the rise (or perhaps more correctly, the return) of conservatism, we were able to stop the march of this nightmare pseudo-Utopia before it completely took us over. Also, remember that without vote fraud and Ross Perot, two of the Democratic icons the author mentions, Kennedy and Bill Clinton would never have been president.
In one sense, we all owe Clinton a debt of gratitude, as he exposed the worst excesses of the Democratic Party to the public sooner than they would have been exposed. He and Brunhilda also siezed power in the Democratic Power, and have been steadily steering it into a mountain ever since.
It is amazing that this country and its people have the resilience to overcome th kind of blatant silent coup that the Democratic Party has inflicted upon us for the last 40 years. Thank God for America.
Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
The Democratic Party has no where to go, but up.
I am glad that it looks like the Dems have finally imploded.They are out of touch and to use the Rolling Stones song title OUT OF TIME."You don't know what's going on
You've been away for far too long"
By the time David Thhhhouter and his buddies on Supremes are done with it, "marriage" will be defined as between one man, his pet dog, wives, prepubescent children (praise be to TROP and its pedophile prophet), two camels, and a BMW.
"Pelosi, of course, is a charter member of the Dean-Michael Moore wackadoo wing."
LoL.
They really are in denial/self-destruct mode. They Still DON'T GET IT!
Actually, they could nominate Kerry again in '08 and he could pick Dean as his running mate.
Yep, I guess it would be extreme to the most extremly perverted selfish backward thinkers in society.
I'm telling you guys, Dean works for us.
What happens when these far left folks realize they can't make new converts with their message of hate, can't capture enough funding, can't convince with their propaganda, etc.? Will they look offshore for their support? To our enemies? Will they attempt violence and coup? Their frustration with "we the people" will go somewhere....what will it look like....and are we ready to respond to it?
I'd agree with that, but I'd say that that was the point when the communists successfully overtook one of America's major political parties.
You'll have to excuse him--he's from New York.
You're right.
They'll burn the Reichstag.
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