Problems that will make the Democrats hide under their beds

various news outlets | Sept. 5, 2005 | Self

[Ichneumon]

Excellent essay! If you submit this for publication somewhere, the only two things you should change (and they're very minor nits) are to fix the bit about the "first Roosevelt administration" (as mentioned by others), and to correct this typo:

the first one thrown overboard as the Democrats try to bale out their ship.

"Bale" should be "bail". You "bail" out a boat (or someone from jail, for that matter), you "bale" cotton or hay into bundles.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The demise of the Democratic party began when the leadership began to go one way, while the rank and file membership went another. I don't think I could stand to be in a room alone with a Washington democrat, but the every day guy who calls himself a democrat seems ok to me.

That is certainly an interesting phenomenon. I have a Christian friend who is dead set against abortion - and dead set against Bush and his nominees. He's a hereditary Democrat and a shop steward at the state office he works in. In a real sense he can't afford to resolve the dissonance between his interest and his principle. Or so it seems to me. It's similar IMHO to the way the conservative South remained Democrat after the Democratic Party became an unambiguously anticonservative party. That dam finally broke in '94.

And there are conservative blacks, too. I know one who says that her pastor told the congregation to not vote party but vote for the person. She investigated for herself - and voted for Bush in '04 in respect for his Christian bona fides. 'Course the ACLU would want to claim that's unconstitutional - but then, as a black she has an ironclad exemption . . .

It would only take a few percent of the black vote resolving that dissonance for the Democratic hopes to ever be able to elect a president to be dashed.

[KC_for_Freedom]

a party-killing lack of leadership.

We saw this with Kerry in the last election. He was hammered to give us his platform, his plan. He could not, because saying you are for socialism, homosexuality, keeping the poor poor, preventing development of energy, and hoping the economy goes in the celler is not a good thing to run on.

BTW, I saw no mention of the improvement in the economy. The dems would also like to be the party of "higher taxes" and "fiscal conservatism" What a laugh. Sadly, the republicans have stolen that platform position.

[listenhillary]

Wow - Well done!

[Navy Patriot]

Nicely done. Pubbies with more cajones could speed things up a bit, but your point that old media are writing their own obituary will come to pass.

[bayourod]

Excellent analysis.

We have a great stable of newcomers who know they can't afford to make a mistake whereas the Democrats have only vacuous, careless, corrupt, or sexually promiscuous politicians in waiting who think they are untouchable.

[auboy]

Thanks for the ping. Excellent points!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

With Governor Blanco crying on national television saying how overwhelmed she is and Mayor Nagin swearing on national radio while blaming Bush for a lack of leadership in his city, we've seen what 'Rat leadership consists of these days. Thank goodness the adults were in charge at the federal level.

[decal]

"False poll results are corroding the ability of Democrat strategists to plan their moves. The fact that the old media lies when it reports its poll findings is well established..."

Which leads us to:

4a) The progs know the poll findings are bogus but act as though they're correct. "There are none so blind..."

[ForGod'sSake]

WOW! Just an excellent piece. jmaroneps37 managed to gather up most of the liberal poop and placed it into one pile. Maybe the stench will even become so unberable that the cesspool inhabitants will be forced to get off the pot?

For the media watchers, jmaroneps37 has spun the MSM neatly into the liberal/Dim web.

FGS

[decal]

"Thank goodness the adults were in charge at the federal level."

Think about that sentence for a minute.

One of the biggest problems we have is a distant Federal Government that for the most part is difficult to hold to account - the more local the government official, the easier they are to access.

Your local government must really bite the big one when the Feds come off as the good guys...

[facedown]

BTTT for an excellent analysis.

[E.G.C.]

Media bias bump.

[weegee]

Maybe Lousiana residents should have elected John Kerry as mayor or governor. I hear he had a plan.

NEW ORLEANS FLASHBACK: OFFICALS WARNED RESIDENTS 'YOU'LL BE ON YOUR OWN'

But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."

Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."

[bert]

Wow..... what a great use of a Laborday weekend..

Thanks for your great analytic essay.

>>>>>The truth about the Sierra Club’s successfully lobbying against a levee that might have saved the City of New Orleans will come out>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This I did not know. The ramifications are extremely important and will blunt any criticism of Bush.

[Landru]

Right off the bat this struck me from the first paragraph.

"The old media writes laundry list article outlining how their party can bounce back, but rarely do they carefully detail the problems that really face the party."

This is not "reality" as [we] come to know, & that's a fact.
There are no "problem(s)" for the Liberal-Socialist's quisling mediots to detail.
Just goals, even dreams.

Now if the writer chooses to define their behavior(s) as a "laundry list"?
Fine.

Do bear this in mind, though.
That their goal(s)and/or dream(s) have not [yet] been met matters not to the mediot's quislings.
Not in the big picture, it doesn't.
Incrementalism is their *friend* & they know it, have learned how to use the power well.
They're quite content making gains so small their progress passes unnoticed until one day?
They're hereeee.

To that end stop they never will, defining a battle having no end.

...just the way it is.

[Landru]

"Maybe the stench will even become so unberable that the cesspool inhabitants will be forced to get off the pot?"

HA!!
Sounds great.

Unfortunately for that to be true, they need some semblance, some modicum of *shame*?

...well. ;^)

[adam_az]

a must read!

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[FMBass]

Nice analysis.
BTTT.