Posted on 08/27/2008 6:00:49 PM PDT by Zakeet
The idea of Democrats emerging unified from their acrimonious convention is laughable. If the GOP convention had the Clinton/Obama feud and John Edwards scandal, it would be declared a catastrophe.
You don't have to wait until this week's Democratic National Convention is over to know that the Party of Jefferson is shattered, and their gathering in Denver is a historic disaster.
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GOP strategist Mike Murphy described the feeling in Denver's thin air to the New York Times' Maureen Dowd as "submerged hate."
On top of all that is Obama's loss of support among two key groups — conservative Democrats and moderate-to-liberal Republicans. A new Gallup poll finds that since June, conservative Democrats backing Obama have dropped from 71% to 63%, while his GOP support has gone from 10% in June to 11% in mid-July, down to only 7% in Gallup's latest tracking poll.
Imagine if it were the other party undergoing equivalent convulsions. Let's say Mitt Romney's supporters demanded an open floor vote and were seething with public resentment against John McCain, the way Hillary's delegates are against Obama.
Add to that former President George H.W. Bush verbally undercutting McCain at every opportunity, in the manner of Bill Clinton's anger toward Obama regarding Hillary, because of, say, statements he made against his son, the sitting president.
Finally, what if Mike Huckabee were involved in a cheating/love child scandal the way John Edwards is, and had become so much of an embarrassment that, like Edwards, he couldn't even speak to his own party's convention after winning lots of electoral votes?
Is there any doubt that the Democrats and the media elites would classify such a GOP convention as the biggest fiasco in the history of party politics?
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Maybe the Democratic Party's longtime recipe of catering to this interest group and that has finally reached the boiling point.
Maybe but I'm not holding my breath. In the end, after all, they're all leftwing a-holes, and for them that's what matters most.
But while the DNC may be split, the GOP is virtually nonexistent at this point for me and many others.
Most of them of whatever minority or interest group are socialists first and the other a distant second.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind these so called Republicans supporting Barry.
They have a penchant for nominating losers whose turn it is to embody the entire 10-facet gamut of leftist thought: pro-feminist, pro homosexual, pro-income redistribution, pro-envirowacko, pro-abortion, anti-America, anti-industry, anti-military, anti-gun, anti-God. These are difficult to wrap into a single flunky — but they always manage to find one. Baraq is no exception.
I’m with you! McCain has no chance of getting my vote after decades of his giving the middle finger to conservatives like me. He’s wrong on far too many issues, particularly the role of government in our lives. Why should I cast a vote when the choices are Socialist party A and Socialist party B?
Shep Smith had one on his show (he fairly drooled all over him). He was 22 years old. Need I say more?
That's EXACTLY the way of it.
They're just the scouts for the wing of the GOP that wants to take the party further left.
Most important is what comes later. When Obama loses big time, Hillary is going to try and take over the party, followed by a major purge of both Obama supporters and the anti-Hillary faction led by Al Gore.
She will be able to purge the Obama faction, and with it the Moonbats who already hate her. This will also mean bye-bye to Pelosi as Speaker, though Reid may survive. But a lot of the rank and file radicals are going to be booted out.
In turn, to prevent Hillary from completely owning the rest of the party, the Al Gore faction will do one of two things: either split the party further and create a serious ‘Green’ party, fleshing out the skeleton that exists right now. Or else reach a temporary truce like they have now, with all the infighting going on behind closed doors.
In either case, as soon as Obama loses, Hillary will unofficially declare for the election of 2012. And the dance will begin anew. But without the utter fruitcakes.
You guys, seriously....take your whining to another thread. This is about the Rat’s convention not about McCain. You know damn well you’re going to drag your butts to the voting booth and hold your noses for him when it all boils down. Especially if he chooses a conservative VP.
I wouldn’t count on them, buddy. It is all about them, not the country.
Why should you vote? Because it is not a black-and-white world.
You’re right that it’s not a black and white world, but for me the time is now to say ‘enough is enough’. I will no longer vote for the Republican candidate just because he’s going to have us on a slightly slower train to Marxism than the other party. Our conservative values have been chipped away little by little in far too many election cycles. Our Republican candidates no longer even talk about limited government; they just want us to believe that they can control big government better than the Dems. Baloney! Government is never, going to be efficient, it’s never going to be compassionate, it’s never going to solve problems as well as the private sector, no matter who is in power.
For me the time to say ‘NO MORE’ is now. The Republican party gets no money from me, no volunteer help from me, and no vote from me until I see real conservatives standing up. I don’t care if the Republican party presence in Washington is reduced to just one Congressman before this is over if that one Congressman is at least conservative. The Republican party, my party all my life, has not yet been punished enough for the betrayal they’ve given us.
That’s a pretty plausible sounding read on what’s unfolding with the Dims.
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