Posted on 11/09/2002 8:44:52 AM PST by SirFishalot
…A SAD TIME Posted on Nov. 8, 2002
It is a sad time. The Democratic Party was not able to articulate a clear message - was not able to convey the very real and very many differences between the two parties. They did not allow the American people to make a meaningful choice. They never articulated what it was we were voting for, and in doing so they failed to motivate their base to go to the polls. The Republicans, on the other hand, spoke directly to their constituency and gave them a reason to vote.
Instead of standing up to the Republicans and indicating their differences, the Democrats went along with the president on tax cuts and Iraq- and were voted out anyway. The American people want leaders - they want people who convey a strong message and stand for something. The Republicans have done this well...even though what they stand for is against the interests of most Americans. Now it is time for the Democrats to stop operating out of fear.
Because the differences are there. The Republicans are excited to, in Trent Lott's words, "roll" their agenda through the Congress. And it's an agenda all of us will have to live with - for the worse. Tax cuts for the rich, destruction of the environment, a prescription drug plan that covers only a very small percentage of seniors, an inadequate pension reform bill, an overly aggressive foreign policy - that's all on the agenda.
And there is a horde of extremist federal judicial nominees, deemed by the Democratically-controlled Senate as too conservative for confirmation, just waiting to get rushed through the nomination process. These judges are guaranteed to threaten our civil liberties, a woman's right to choose, civil rights and environmental protection. And they will be around long after the president is gone.
So as we move forward, I, for one, will continue to urge the Democrats, even as, or especially as, the minority/opposition party, to be vocal in conveying the differences to the American public. Because this is not the time to give up fighting for what is important. There is too much at stake. The Democrats must once again return to their roots as a strong and directed party fighting for the betterment of the poor, working and middle-class Americans that make up the great majority of our country.
The Democrats who stood up to the president and showed strong opposition leadership were the ones that won on Tuesday. Hopefully, by 2004, the party - and the people - will get the message.
And who would these Democrat stalwarts be, Babs?
Yeah, she gets it.
OMG! I agree with her!!! Yes, by all means show us your true colors!!!!!
Oh. She really meant "continue to misrepresent the Republicans." Oh well..
I'm tired of hearing this clap-trap. The dems FORCIBLY delivered their message all over the nation: Reject Bush.
That was their message from Election Day 2000 until Election Day 2002. They had no OTHER message because they DON'T HAVE ANY SOLUTIONS. Their "ideas" are to return to the failed ideals of the New Deal and Great Society.
They think those are still viable because, heck, it gave 'em power for decades, didn't it?
On the contrary: I think it is the REPUBLICANS who now have the onus upon them to articulate a clear message. They must do this by ignoring people like Babs Streisand and our Leftist media, who don't and never will care about what is right.
They need to begin to articulate the message that a large minority of the electorate already embraces: Smaller government, lower taxes, more individual freedom, and less government INTRUSION in our lives.
You see, no one has really tried this in about 70 years or so. It's time that the conservatives were able to have a turn. We need to be given about twenty years to see if our ideas will work.
George Bush will grace Mount Rushmore when this woman's irrelevant voice is long forgotten.
We need to be given take about twenty years to see if proove our ideas will work.
I want a overly-aggressive perscription drug plan that inadequately destroys the environment for the rich.
Yeh. Me too. I notice that this very vocal hollywood dim doesn't offer any clear difference, either - just criticizes. Too funny!
Unfortunately, the Democrats took a major left turn after the 1968 elections when the Radical Left began to get positions of power in the Party. And now, it will haunt them for years to come.
The Democratic Party was not able to articulate a clear message
Kind of hard to do when an organinzation is devoid of such to begin with.
- was not able to convey the very real and very many differences between the two parties.
Seemed to be plenty of difference for he American people to make a choice between a party devoid of purpose and message (Democrat), and a party having a clear vision and strong purpose which the American people like(Republican).
They did not allow the American people to make a meaningful choice.
Sure did, and the American people clearly made that choice.
They never articulated what it was we were voting for,
Sure the Democratic party did. Nothing is what the the Democrats were to supposed to vote for according to the Democratic party. They only know how to support a vote against ideas programs and vision, not for such things.
and in doing so they failed to motivate their base to go to the polls.
What base is that pray tell? They were at the polls, whoever were interested in the Democrat's message. The Democrat base are in the minority by there own choice of constituency. Can't of more of something when there aren't any more to be had. DUH!!
Comic relief?
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Good find, Sir Fishalot!!! ;)
Weren't the Dems proposing a tax on the ultra-rich that would have excluded entertainers?
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