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This is an article by an ex-democrat. The last line of the article is:

Like they say in the National Parks, "Once a bear is hooked on garbage, there's no cure."

I suspect that there are more people that think like this than we know.

1 posted on 09/14/2008 1:02:50 PM PDT by oldtimer2
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2 posted on 09/14/2008 1:04:23 PM PDT by MarkeyD (I love Palin! McCain...not so much.)
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Yep. For me the turning point came in 94. That was the first time I voted Republican in my life. I was a Democrat before then because I thought they'd be around forever. They're back today but they're not a party I'd want to join. Who would?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

5 posted on 09/14/2008 1:12:28 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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As a result of this unremitting ideological promiscuity, the "progressive" party has become progressively more diseased from each submissive encounter.

What an excellent description of today's DNC!

6 posted on 09/14/2008 1:12:57 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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7 posted on 09/14/2008 1:13:29 PM PDT by Ken H
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Until 2004, with the exception of Guiliani's second term as mayor, I voted the Democrat ticket in every election since 1967. In 2004, offered the Insane Clown Posse of John Kerry and John Edwards, I voted for George Bush. The spectacle of the last four years of various Democrats reaching for the gold ring did not inspire me to change my view. Only the dead enjoy parties in a crypt. Not even Roman columns improve the Charnal house atmosphere that fumes through the party today.

That will leave a heck of a mark! OUCH!!!

8 posted on 09/14/2008 1:14:10 PM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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Beautiful. Describes the RAT party for the corrupt collection of Ultra-leftwing Marxist moonbats hell bent on destroying the nation that they are.

This should be syndicated to media the world over.


9 posted on 09/14/2008 1:14:33 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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The monsters from the id that now control the Democrat Party have transformed that party into a mob of undead extras from The Dawn of the Dead.

What that looks like:

Yup, that's about right.

12 posted on 09/14/2008 1:20:19 PM PDT by Plutarch
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I’m sure that many on this forum will empathize with the author, having made our own escape from the Democrat plantation.

Only an escaped ex-liberal can truly appreciate how sickening life on that side of the fence really is.


13 posted on 09/14/2008 1:26:32 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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“I suspect that there are more people that think like this than we know.”

I suspect so.

Spot on article.


14 posted on 09/14/2008 1:27:09 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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“...weak, tepid and compromised souls as Carter, Clinton, Kerry, and now Obama...”

Exactly right, and these weak sops were transformed into facades of principled leadership by old media driven by socialist academia. Thankyou new media and Free Republic. Keep unwrapping the pretty silk from rotten leftist corpses.


15 posted on 09/14/2008 1:27:21 PM PDT by generalhammond (liberal = liar)
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Good to see a Dem say 'good-bye'. The 'body-snatching' of the Democrat Party began a long time ago. Those in power; are the replacements for those who once represented Democratic values. NOT ANY MORE!

Amazing to me; to hear still, so often. . .'but I was raised a Democrat'/My family has ALWAYS voted Democrat. I cannot leave my Party! Totally unaware, that Demrats in power; have replaced their 'old Guard, per their 'vision of the past'. (No reason to make them feel worse, by pointing out the time-line of 'degradations here'/lol.)

Bottom line; the movers/shakers of this Party are now all Marxist-Progressives - or some variation of 'communist et als'.

My response is to just tell them, that they do not have to say 'Good-Bye'. It has already been said; they just missed it.

Better, of course, to hear the truth, from 'one of their own'. . .

16 posted on 09/14/2008 1:31:18 PM PDT by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~)
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I suspect that there are more people that think like this than we know.

After reading this article, I somehow got the impression that the writer is not going to vote Democrat any more. Perhaps it was lines like the following:

[The Democrat Party] moves about the country like a tarted-up Typhoid Mary, infecting all who kiss its chancred lips. As a party, it's a poxed whore for whom no condom is thick enough. It's a death trip.
I can't help but think he isn't happy with the Democrat Party.
17 posted on 09/14/2008 1:32:42 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what hall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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fairly short / concise....this be posted / e-mailed to every voter(citizen)
18 posted on 09/14/2008 1:32:45 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Annoy the media, elect PALIN and McCAIN....errr....McCAIN / PALIN" 8^)
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For the ex-Democrat

Don't speak of the Democratic Party that way..

Democrat leaders and stalwarts fought the New Left and lost. (Kinda, sorta, at least until they started running.)

I knew the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was a friend of America. The Rat Party is no Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party is still the party of Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman, and others who I can think of but do not want to name as they were IMO a little too close to the commie side.

There are of course more like the three I did name -- and who could forget that Ronald Reagan was a Democrat until around the early 1960s I think it was.

Where do you think the Republican "neo-cons" came from?

The Rat leaders and stalwarts came from New Left gutter rats breeding.

19 posted on 09/14/2008 1:32:47 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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p.s. a good article to leave; on car windshield carrying Obama sticker; or slide behind 'flag' on mailbox of 'Obama house'. Could insert this nicely into one of he Libs favorites reads at B/N and/or Borders - or just leave on table at Starbucks - in 'coffee room' at work; if needed. . .

'we can all engage in stealth activism/!

21 posted on 09/14/2008 1:36:10 PM PDT by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~)
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And just until a few weeks ago I was feeling the Republican party moving in the same direction. I was a man without a party.
22 posted on 09/14/2008 1:38:10 PM PDT by LiberConservative (Sarah Palin makes me tingly.)
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The author is excellent at conjuring up visual images. Stretched my education a bit, though. I had to perform two Google searches to fill in some gaps (Dorian Gray and Charnel house).


23 posted on 09/14/2008 1:38:36 PM PDT by gitmo (Some days you're the dog. Some days you're the hydrant.)
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“in the last fortnight, hoever, i have come to the place where the whole sorry spectacle and circus of the democrats
has finally filled me with disgust and revulsion.”

socialists with no manners, no sense of propriety, with egos the size of the grand canyon, with a sense of self-appointed brilliance, who badger and carp, who push and berate, who go about the country demeaning people who have faith, sometimes have a tendency to be obnoxious phalluses who disgust people and make them sick.

the question is, what took him so long to get fed up?

IMHO


24 posted on 09/14/2008 1:39:23 PM PDT by ripley
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What a perfect description of the current state of the Democratic Party today. It should be the definition posted in Wikipedia, it is so dead on.

Like the writer, I, too, was a Democrat, back in my younger years. It took Carter's "malaise" of double-digit inflation, stagnation, a pervading sense of doom and gloom that America was weak and faltering, contrasted with the bright, optimistic, clear, decisive message of Ronald Reagan. And to use that well-worn phrase, it was like the clouds had parted and the sun burst forth for the first time in many years.

Sarah Palin has brought that magic back again. The old and decayed false logic of the left leads to despair, but it is easily vanquished by those who know how to cut through it. It isn't difficult. To banish the darkness, one merely needs to light a lamp. Why it has been so excruciatingly difficult to find another lamp-bearer, has been the source of frustration to so many of us these past years. Rush Limbaugh has been adamant and correctly so that this is all it would take. We just needed someone to step up and call the fools on their own game, and tell it like it is. Sarah Palin, out of the clear blue just popped up and started doing that very thing.

I feel so relieved. I haven't felt this good about our countries prospects since 1980, and what a great feeling it is!

26 posted on 09/14/2008 1:57:48 PM PDT by 1-Eagle (REMEMBER every vote counts toward the "mandate"... ALL VOTES ARE NEEDED!)
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Excellent article.

My family was always Democrat. So was I many years ago. But I grew out of it. I think in some ways the transition from Liberal to Conservative is the natural order of things. Winston Churchill believed so anyway.

What is happening now in terms of people waking up from the dream of deciet offered by the Democrats is different, in that it occurs outside the slow growth normally reserved for the transition from liberal to conservative.

The behavior of the left, mainly in the response to Palin, is so jarring to anyone not frothing at the mouth from years of “Progressive” Kool-aid, that it prompts this realization.

The lashing out has been that of a spoiled infant, and seeing such behavior in the supposed adults in media and on the left elicits a visceral defense response from healthy adults. Something has gone horribly wrong, even if you can't articulate exactly what it is.

If the strain of defeatist, valueless, vile hate and lust for power at any cost infesting the Democrat party is not exorcised very soon, they are finished as a political force in this country. Or we are finished as a country. It is definitely one or the other.

27 posted on 09/14/2008 2:01:17 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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