Posted on 12/11/2005 7:09:54 AM PST by billorites
More cheese eating surrender monkeys here than you can shake a stick at.
Hopefully the Dems will continue to forget what happened to him.
Wow
Remember the 2004 slogan for president? ABB (Anybody But Bush)
Theirs is a party of opposition, not strategy.
The Democrat battle cry: "Killer Rabbit! Run Away!
Run Away! Run Away! Run Away! Run Away! Run Away!..
(Ad Infinitum)
Democrat: The Party of Cowardice.
Low Stamina, Low Morals, Low Humor, Low Civility,
Low Expectations, Low Lifes...
Democrats are are all about the Lowness of Being...Low.
WOW, great article, thank you for posting!
The Dem mantra apparently is "I pledge allegiance to my bed sheets..."
The term "White Flag Democrats" is pure genius.
It's very catchy
I was listening to NPR yesterday, and even they were mocking Dean over this. They said the "context" of his remarks were that he also hates Capitalism and Motherhood. Which was funny of course because it is true.
What the GOP should do is follow up on the white flag ad, with video of Democrats crying about it.
That meant I read everything that came over the AP wire and listened to all the audio feeds that came over ABC radio network.
The media especially in June,July and August of 1972 were acting as if the Democratic Candidate was likely to win. Certainly if one only associated with Democrats, then the every observation would predict a Democrat victory. The media logic was simple and very flawed. It knew that after 4 years of war in Viet Nam, it was very unlikely that LBJ could even get the Democratic nomination in 1968 let alone win the office. So in 1968 LBJ dropped out. And Nixon went on to defeat HHH.
Four years later with the war continuing they expected Nixon to do as poorly as LBJ. But when Nixon had no trouble winning renomination, they assumed it was just that no Republican wanted to be the noiminee and lose.. After all the media in 1972 believed the Republicans would go down like LBJ and HHH had done in 1968.
But they did not understand the situation. Democrats became opposed to the war in 1967 and 68. But Republicansa and a large majority if independents continued to support the effort. Democrats in 68 were opposed to the war, and the centrists and REpublicans were opposed to the Democrat's position on the war. Thus no pro war Democrats could win. But with 60 percent of the population being pro-war not anti war democrat could win a general election.
I remember the media surprise in 1972 when Nixon got 60.6 percent of the vote to McGovern's 39 percent.
It was obvious McGovern got the democratic base and only a small minority of centrists.
The people who ran and controlled the media in 1972 are either dead or retired. And their replacements don't know history. The Democrats who supported and rooted for McGovern are mostly still active... but they do what they always do. The Democrats blame the messinger.. never the message. Thus is not the anti-american anti-war stance of McGovern in1972 that cost him any chance at being president ... It was the poor campaign skills of McGovern that cost Democrats the 1972 election.
Democrats are making the same mistake again. They can not believe that their anti american message can fail. They believe it was the messinger that cost them in 1972. And younger Democrats actually believe that the anti war crowd won the hearts and minds of the voting public back then.
They did not.
It is common in both parties. They do not study history and they do not learn its lessons.
Duke Wayne wrote:
A White flag would make a great Christmas gift for any flaming lefty on your gift list.
I'm sure it would look great flying right above the Stars and stripes on your favorite Democrats lawn
Excellent idea!! I love the term White Flag Democrats. They should change the name of Blue States to White Flag States: California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut (sorry Lieberman) Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,you get my drift.
You got that right...
Democrat Party = French Party??
Interesting to read your reminiscinces of that election. But I'm not sure you even need to go as far back as 1972. I thought that after the 2004 election, the Rats were claiming to have sobered up and to have realized that they had to re-connect with the average American. For a few months they were shell-shocked, then they went right back to doing the same stupid things. Liberals are always talking about their "dreams" and their "hopes" and "what could be." Because of this, they keep losing touch with reality because they keep convincing themselves that what they want to happen is what actually is happening.
It has never been a successful strategy to campaign on an anti-war platform when we actually have troops in the field of battle. It might work in Spain or France, but it doesn't work in the US.
Thanks again for the great recollection of those disturbing times in the early 70s. The media was as anti-US then as it is now.
Thank you very much for the lesson!
I was in elementary school and growing up in a democrat household then. Cronkie was ALWAYS on at 5:30 so my views of that time were one-sided. Our poor vets from that time suffered so much because of his reporting techniques.
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