So before the election the balance was 293-140? Imagine if the Dem party then was as insane as it is now what a disaster that would be. We would have a full blown communist police state on our hands.
The US in 1966 was utterly different from the nightmare we live in now. The populace was homogenous with a single minority of about 10%, English was spoken by everyone, serious crime was unheard of in many places (we still did not lock our doors in a large city), mass immigration had not brought in 50 million aliens from grossly different cultures and political systems, and even Ted Kennedy was against abortion. In fact, pretty much everyone was.
Christmas was still a holiday where they actually mentioned the birth of some guy in a manger.
People said we were a Christian nation with a straight face.
They said things like "God Bless America" and they actually mean't it.
It's true that Vietnam demonstrations were getting going. It's true that Civil Rights demonstrations had been going for some time, and that laws had been passed along those lines.
But at that point, it was still the U.S., the leader of the Free World, a place where unemployment was a bad memory from the Depression, and a nation that had never lost a war, especially after Saving the World twice just in the last 50 years.
So how does a clown like Barone get off trying to compare then to now? The people and the place are utterly different, and he pretends that its still just Dims and Pubs, going at it same old same old.
Barone is the best political analyst in DC.
The Republicans of today would fit right in with the Democrats of 1966. The Democrats of today are insane.
....I know that nobody thinks that that will never happen, talk about shock and awe...
...Zer0's hair would turn from a "dignified" gray to white, and his voice would get shriller.
Always was a dreamer....strange things happen at the most unexpected places
AND
God works in mysterious ways....
One major difference. Democrats of the 1960s are not like the Democrats today. The ones today are flat out communists and socialists. The South is no different than the rest of the country in that, regardless of how “conservative” the media would like you to think they are.
2010 is the election on whether we want a capitalist state or a communist state. If you vote for ANYONE with a (D) after their names, you’re voting with the communists.