I think this article completely misses the mark.
The Democrat Party is the “Me Party”. Its about selfishness. It has as many wings as it has voters.
Identity politics define it and therefore split it.
LLS
When I heard this on the radio yesterday, I couldn’t believe that Carville actually said it, so I went looking for verification.
“Of the comparable toughness between Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., Clinton adviser James Carville tells Newsweek: ‘If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.’”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/carville-says-o.html
DEEP is good.. But I am waiting for “Mortal” wounds as the charaterization.
So the bridge to the 21st century is now too far!!
Lazy RATS
The evangelical Christian and social conservatives find themselves in a marriage of convenience (does this violate a marriage’s sanctity?) with economic conservatives, who in turn wonder about the single-minded obsession of the national security-focused conservatives. Consider it as the Pat Robertson Republicans versus the Rockefeller Republicans versus the Reagan Republicans. All represent different wings of the party
This wildly overstates the divisions. First, the social conservatives include not just evangelicals but everyone who takes traditional social rules seriously - Catholics and others. Second, the idea that there is a contradiction between social conservatism and economic freedom died with the success of the US Constitution. And where did the idea that there was a contradiction between either of those two and concern about national security come from?Reagan was no opponent of social conservatism. The real divide in the Republican Party has been the Rockefeller vs the Kemp - the country club vs the main street - divide.
The Democrats have had their version of an economic divide - the white wine liberals vs the beer liberals. And the party works because the white wine liberals promise to take care of the beer liberals. The country club Republicans want to take care of the beer liberals, too. Whereas the Main Street Repubicans want everyone to recognize that we all - beer liberals included - do a better job of taking care of ourselves than either the country club Republicans or the white wine liberals can possibly can possibly do for them. And that we all do better at that when not under the illusion that the government is going to do it for us.
And the Blacks will vote for WHOEVER their LEADERS tell them to! Very sad.
Mary, do the world a favor and have a “domestic dispute” with your dear hubby.