Not bad. These factions in the Left just had to go to war with each other sooner or later.
And I'm loving every minute of it.
Posted on 04/21/2008 10:15:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Democrats are in CHAOS. Freedom is the POWER to do what you ought to due. Regardless of sex, race or shoe size.
We've had the Pubbies in power for 8 years, so it's traditionally a time for the pendulum to swing, and Bush's low polls and the nationwide epidemic of BDS should put the icing on the cake for the Dems, aided and abetted by a willing MSM eager to put makeup on any pig the Dems decide to run.
I have to laugh when I think of Jeremiah Wright's sermon on the chickens coming home to roost. They should've picked healthy chickens, first of all, and they never should have run the First Black President against the First Woman President second. That one of them is a Clinton is a sure harbinger of doom. The other chicken has been hanging out with vultures...didn't they vet Obama?
A few months ago I never in a million years would have thought that McCain might win this year, he is the snowflake and Washington is...well you know. But now I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, and it doesn't sound like a train. It may only be a flashlight, but in this crazy election year, maybe a flashlight is enough.
Here's to living in interesting times!
Well said.
It has robbed the United States of an effective opposition party for four decades, with no end in sight.
As I've said elsewhere, the Dem Party has no paradigm. But this is why they can win non-presidential elections - their party is so fractured into special interest groups/issues, there's no cohesiveness anywhere on the radar to hold together a single Dem Presidential candidate. Witness California. Dem Legislators run the money; Not the governor. The state is in trouble. Vallejo will probably go into bankruptcy. More cities may be following suit.
The Dem's lack of unity is what spells their having built their houses upon fine grains of sand; each grain demanding it get noticed first, if not solely. The marxian, socialist philosophy will never hold unity. It can't. It can only lead to fraction, faction, and failure.
Not bad. These factions in the Left just had to go to war with each other sooner or later.
And I'm loving every minute of it.
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A. I’m not lumpy.
B. I’m not semi-hysterical.
C. I am gun loving.
D. I’m not no paroletariat.
...they never should have run the First Black President against the First Woman President...
Even were they to run in the same ticket, someone has to lose. Hahahaha.
Hoist on their own political petard or caught in a horney
dilemma.
In his recent Salon article, Michael Lind identifies the split between dueling Democratic wings of the 1950s, specifically between hard-headed pragmatist (and Cold War hawk) Harry Truman on one side and liberal idealist (and Cold War dove) Adlai Stevenson on the other. Like almost any comment anybody makes about this split, that's an invidious comparison, and Lind is clearly advocating one side of the equation. Truman won an election as the nominee of a divided party (against the odds) and Stevenson lost two of them (against even greater odds). But let's let that stand, since Lind's dating of the emergence of this division is clearly correct: The last president to command enthusiastic support from all sides of the Democratic coalition was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
There is that split in the Democratic Party. But nobody's ever going to do as well as FDR, who managed to bring together African-Americans and segregationists, Communists and Catholics in his various runs.
Truman did respectably. The breakaway elements were on the fringes: fellow travellers for Henry Wallace, and state's righters for Strom Thurmond.
Stevenson couldn't have won against Eisenhower. But for an egghead, he did succeed in carrying some states that are very Republican, "red," and rural today.
His problem wasn't that he only carried intellectuals. It was that Eisenhower won just about everywhere outside the Deep South and a few other pockets around the country.
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