[Congressman Billybob]

I'm going to D.C. to work with Kristinn Taylor on FreeRepublic's testimony against the proposed FEC regulations to restrict free speech on the Internet. So, I wrote this early and post it early.

I think you will agree with the sentiments expressed, and the humor of the expression. LOL.

[okie01]

He got all choked up on the Senate floor, like Red Sovine in a suit.

Phantom 309 rides again!

[Eva]

Good luck with your work in DC. I wish we could just pull the plug on Democrats and end their death's throe thrashing.

[Kenton]

There's nothing quite as amusing as sitting in a bar drinking with a union member. Sooner or later, they always go into a "I hate Bush/Republicans" rant.

That's when I calmly start asking them how they feel about specific issues, like gun control, affirmative action/"diversity", and how that affects them on the job, and issues that demonstrate to them that they are, in fact, patriotic in their own way (lotsa vets in this group, after all), not like the Soros/MoveOn neo-communists.

Then I ask them how they can continue to be loyal to a party that, deep in its' core, takes the position that white males with a predominant Christian background, like them, are the source of all that is wrong in America, and the only reason they are welcome in the party is because their union bosses support the Democrats.

Puts a lot of questions in their minds. Sometimes, it even brings them around to questioning. "Yeah, why do I support a bunch of people who don't respect me and think I'm a redneck scumbag, anyway?"

[ConservativeDude]

"Both are subject to the same failures which put the Whigs, the Federalists, and the Republican-Democrats, among others, on the ash heap of history."

I don't think I agree that a party today is subject to same failure. The system itself is too big and because of its vastness guarantees that no party will die, nor will a 3rd party disappear. More likely, the two names will continue on, moving left and right and back again, back and forth over time.

As long as there is a USA, there will be two parties and two only, th eD's and the R's

[goldstategop]

I agree. The Democrats will remain dominant in their Blue State strongholds in California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey for the forseeable future. But as a national political force, they're all but extinct. A party of the coasts and the Great Lakes is not exactly a party that speaks to and on behalf of the entire country. To put it differently, a regional party is not the same as a national party. Indeed Zell Miller put it well it in the title of his next to last book, "A National Party No More." The Democrats don't see how much they've shrunk and the road back is a long one. A new party has better odds of making it on the national scene than the late unloved Democrats do.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[zeebee]

All it would take is one candidate to breathe fresh air into the party and it will be back on all cylinders.