John / Billybob
The Kook-Fringe Party has been born. A recent poll showed that a third of Americans think the government had something to do with 9-11, so they have their base.
Surely this mindset is way off on the margin.
We're going to quit! We're going to quit! RAH! RAH! RAH!
"Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England."
Ronald Reagan "The Speech" - 1964
Sure you don't want to move to Sugarland and run in the 22nd district? /chuckle
Nice article.
I like filthy rich people. They are not going to steal my car, murder me, etc. Plus, they or someone in their family probably did something really good to get wealthy in the first place. They also pay about 10 times or more the taxes that I pay, they provide more jobs, etc. Fithy rich is better than the alternative, poor people who are often stupid, and middle class people who know almost nothing about macro issues.
I like GH bush, GW bush, Arnold, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Bill Frist, Pete Dupont, Steve Forbes, Tiger Woods, Charles Barkely, the late John Heinz, Pete DuPont, etc.
The Kennedys I can do without along with the Hollywood rich, but mostly the rich are the cream of our society.
I guess this makes Bill Clinton a latter-day Whig? He'd probably like to go down in history as the "Last Democrat President."
"That brings us back to Ned Lamont. A prime mover in putting him into office was MoveOn.org."
Lamont isn't in office yet.
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07.08.06
Who is Ned Lamont?
Politics, Harvard, Left Think, Democrats, 2006 Elections, Joseph Lieberman, Phillips Exeter Academy, Corliss Lamont
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I knew he was a commie, of course. But not until I read Martin Peretz, in the Wall Street Journal, did I realise that he is an hereditary commie of impeccable red-diaper origins: old money, with Exeter, Harvard, and Stalin as family traditions.
Left-wing Democrats are once again fielding single-issue “peace candidates,” and the one in Connecticut, like several in the 1970s, is a middle-aged patrician, seeking office de haut en bas, and almost entirely because he can. It’s really quite remarkable how someone like Ned Lamont, from the stock of Morgan partner Thomas Lamont and that most high-born American Stalinist, Corliss Lamont, still sends a chill of “having arrived” up the spines of his suburban supporters simply by asking them to support him.
http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=1392
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115490367543028221.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_Lamont
http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=1393
bttt
Should have added the requisite apologies to Mr. Chamberlain.
Bttt
Democrats: The party of the working man - like Michael Moore, Bono, Steven Spielburg. You know, the poor low class slobs that can never seem to get a break...
Here here. I couln't agree more. EXCELLENT commentary. :)
BUMP
So, tell me again, why is the Dem party dead? Because Ned Lamont bought his nomination, that makes them crosswise from the American people?
I'd have thought that if there was a chance, it was more because they're moving leftward too quickly and too openly. Not that any of the ordinary guys I know who vote Dem seem to have much awareness of that.
However, I hope your assessment is correct.
Good post. Bump
The Democratic Party died in 1968 with the rejection of the New Deal/Great Society. With that rejection, the old Democratic coalition of the mid-20th Century came unglued. What it morphed into was the New Democrat Party, which stands for nothing, but is an amalgamation of amoral relativists, labor goons, crackheads, perverts, power lusters, malcontents, baby-killers, nihilists, appeasers, shiftless "victims", sociopaths, race-baiters, radical atheists, journalists, and other ne'er-do-wells of assorted social pathologies. And it represents about 48% of the electorate.
Ping.
Great analysis Congressman. I agree that Lieberman's party has wandered into the desert without a pillar of smoke or fire to guide them.