Posted on 08/15/2009 3:22:18 AM PDT by Scanian
THERE are more conserva tives than Republicans and more Democrats than lib erals. That's one of the asymmetries between the parties that helps to explain the particular political spot we're in.
The numbers are fairly clear. In the 2008 exit poll, 34 percent of voters described themselves as conservatives and 32 percent as Republicans; 39 percent described themselves as Democrats, only 22 percent as liberals.
The result is that the two parties have offsetting political advantages. Democrats tend to win on party identification. Republicans tend to win on ideology. Democrats don't have to appeal to as many independents as Republicans do. Republicans don't have to appeal to as many moderates as Democrats do.
But the Democrats have a problem here. The party's leadership currently tilts heavily to the liberal side. Barack Obama is from the university community of Hyde Park in Chicago. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco, and important House committee chairmen are from similar "gentry urban" locales -- Henry Waxman from the West Side of Los Angeles, Charles Rangel from a district that includes not only Harlem but much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Barney Frank from Newton, Mass., next door to Boston.
Of the 21 top leadership members and chairmen, five come from districts carried by John McCain, but the average vote in the other 16 districts was 71 percent to 27 percent for Obama.
All these Democratic leaders understand that their home turf tilts far left of the rest of the nation. But a politician's political base is ultimately his or her reality principle. Moreover, most of these leaders -- though Obama obfuscated this in his campaign -- have strong, long-held convictions that are well on the left of the American political spectrum.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
He notes that while the GOP has lost its edge, identifying as a "Conservative" has not.
The Left and the left of Left are so liberal that their Liberal International Agenda of Radicalism or “LIAR” makes them headstrong. The bigger the heads, the harder they fall. “Ass over tea kettle” as they say...Their agenda’s momentum will eventually thrust them over the forward edge of reason. There has already been a significant impact just for the fact that they and their agenda have been in motion. Conservatives, Republicans and some Democrats can do more than to hope for the best possible outcome. I don’t necessarily believe that it would be evil to not be in a position to catch them as they fall. It might be better for the country for our little counterculture to take advantage of any and every situation, every opportunity to always have the best possible lie (golf term) and to have the ability to always select the right club (again with the golf) and above all...NO CHEATING!
The Left and the left of Left are so liberal that their Liberal International Agenda of Radicalism or “LIAR” makes them headstrong. The bigger the heads, the harder they fall. “Ass over tea kettle” as they say...Their agenda’s momentum will eventually thrust them over the forward edge of reason. There has already been a significant impact just for the fact that they and their agenda have been in motion. Conservatives, Republicans and some Democrats can do more than to hope for the best possible outcome. I don’t necessarily believe that it would be evil to not be in a position to catch them as they fall. It might be better for the country for our little counterculture to take advantage of any and every situation, every opportunity to always have the best possible lie (golf term) and to have the ability to always select the right club (again with the golf) and above all...NO CHEATING! However, we will be playing by our own rules.
This is a great analysis. Bookmark it.
I’ve been saying this all along.
Without all the giveaways to the unions, the abortion mandates, the death panels, a public option would have passed easily. But they couldn’t help themselves. Thay had to add that nonsense.
Caught only a minute or two of the O town hall yesterday.
A single mother with two children, one profoundly handicapped. She is a student.
Clearly each of these children had a father. Why does the father have NO responsibility to pay for health care. How did it become the duty of other people to pay, not only her health care, but most likely for food stamps and other public assistance.
How is it that she made her bed and WE all have to sleep in it with her.
O spoke to the NAACP and railed against the lack of responsibility of fathers. Why didn’t he tell this woman, presumable white, to get the children’s father to step up.
Because liberals believe all behaviour is acceptable and the rest of us are liable for the consequences.
Even the evil fascist bastards Stalin and Hitler had sense enough to dump the “too much too soon” Trotsky and Roehm,in order to make socialist tyranny easier to implement.
The dumass Dems really need to curb extremists like Obama,Pelosi and Reid if they want to establish their Leftist regime.
No talent at frog boiling is a cardinal sin.
“All these Democratic leaders understand that their home turf tilts far left of the rest of the nation.”
Enemy territory. Instead of designating these areas by color, plant hammer and sickle flags on the map.
Later.
If the useless republicans could regain the majority, these fascist become just 1 of many again.
Bookmark for later.
That would make it a lot harder to starve the govt out of business (by tax resistance). However, we don't seem to have the will to do anything but complain.
Notice how the govt takes any opportunity to put you further from your wealth and themselves closer; to put a psychological distance between you and the product of your labor. What does that achieve, but to make you less likely to stop and think as you pay your taxes?
You got it.
Medicare smelled like a welfare scheme when LBJ first proposed it, now everyone is figuring it out. Some of us have been paying into the scam for 44 years whether we wanted to or not and now they’re wanting to kill us off and give our money to illegals, thereby replacing one Dhimmi constituency with another.
Sick, twisted, commie bass turds.
Perhaps their father(s) refuse to pay for it despite court orders to do so.
I can tell you for a fact that at least one father in Florida has successfully defied court orders on support, insurance, and medical bills since 2006 without consequence. I'm confident he is not the only one.
But is this cause for federal health care reform?
No way.
Republicans had a majority but one of their prominent members destroyed it.
Then they nominated him for President!
How can you fix stupidity like that?
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