Posted on 08/21/2006 4:07:35 AM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Joe Lieberman's upset loss to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's primary confirms the rebirth and takeover by the Democratic Party's left wing that in the Vietnam era drove the party into the wilderness.
Following the 1968 Democratic convention blow-out in Chicago and the resounding election defeat of the liberals, the party was marginalized for most of the next 24 years. Republicans appealed to the "silent majority," attracting independents as well as blue-collar and conservative Democrats who crossed the line in voting booths across America. More recently, the GOP strategy has been driven by the religious right aimed mainly at the South and middle America.
Jimmy Carter was elected following Nixon's Watergate misdeeds. Bill Clinton successfully co-opted Republican stands on the economy and welfare reform that worked; but he politically stumbled through early terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies and assets in the Middle East, Africa and the first World Trade Center bombing.
In the Gore and Kerry campaigns it was theirs to lose and lose they did. Karl Rove painted them as unprincipled flip-floppers, weak on defense, while portraying George W. Bush as being consistent on defense policy and possessing the courage to lead.
As we approach the midterm elections in November and the 2008 presidential campaign beyond, the Republican strategy's handwriting is already on the wall. Republicans will be portrayed as the "big tent" party, inviting all to join -- of course they will hammer away at the liberal opposition but carefully omit their own litmus tests, dismal record in party diversity and economic policies resulting in stagnant real income for working Americans as minorities continue losing ground as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Really?
Then how did they maintain their majority in both houses?
Hey Leftists, it is your complete ABSCENCE of anything remotely looking like an agenda plus continually screaming of nonsense and bile at anyone who disagrees that makes people laugh at you. HOW about ONE time you actually put the name calling and hyper hysteric rhetoric on hold and offer ups some SOLUTIONS?
Democrats really are stuck on stupid.
There are none so blind....
Heading? The DBM/dems have jumped off the cliff, taken a long walk on a short pier, crossed the threshold, flew over the Koo-koos nest, crossed over into the twilight zone, jumped over the moon-----bats!
I'd say they have lost all their marbles.
Wait... we should be some delusional kooks here at any moment, that will try to tell us there's not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties.
Of all the statements in the whole article, this one shows the least understanding of how economics works.
Redistribution of wealth is Marxist for taking money away fom the rich and giving it to the poor. Giving tax breaks that also affect upper income people is the exact opposite to "redistributing wealth". It's not "redistributing" anything. It's not taking a penny away from the poor, it's just not giving it to them in the first place.
It's leaving wealth in the hands of the people who earned it and not passing it out to bums and welfare queens...errrr, I mean Democratic constituents.
What a load of Democrat propaganda! Democrats are the wilderness.
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