Democrats Go Off the Cliff

Weekly Standard ^ | 20 jun 03 | David Brooks

[white trash redneck]

Interesting articles. I particularly like the parallels between the RATs and the EUroweenies on the one hand, and the Palesterrorists. All of them delusional, paranoid, and basically powerless.

[bcoffey]

From these quotes:

"This republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this administration," says Democratic senator Robert Byrd.

"I think this is deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of America," says liberal commentator Bill Moyers.

George Bush's economic policy is the "most radical and dangerous economic theory to hit our shores since socialism," says Senator John Edwards.

I can only conclude that Pres. Bush is doing something right!

[William McKinley]

George Bush's economic policy is the "most radical and dangerous economic theory to hit our shores since socialism," says Senator John Edwards.

I am sure that line is going to fly well with your base John. Guess this implies that you know you have no chance at the Democrat nomination and are concerned about your own re-election, doesn't it?

[Kenton]

Good article. Can't help remembering that a lot of us felt pretty much the same way between 1992 and 1994, when Clinton held the Whitehouse and the Dems held both houses of Congress.

[Miss Marple]

"It's probably a weakness that we're not real haters. We don't have a sense that it's a holy crusade," Democratic strategist Bob Shrum told Adam Clymer of the New York Times.

This has to be one of the funniest quotes I have ever read. Bob Shrum is one of the architects of attck campaigning, and he spent the morning of September 11, 2001 explaining the evils of George Bush to a press organization's annual breakfast. (Source: Bill Sammon's Fighting Back)

[Servant of the Nine]

It's mystifying. Fury rarely wins elections. Rage rarely appeals to suburban moderates. And there is a mountain of evidence that the Democrats are now racing away from swing voters, who do not hate George Bush, and who, despite their qualms ....

That is exactly what happened to Republicans in 1996 when we let our rhetoric about Clinton get out of hand and alienated the center.

I'm not saying we were wrong about Bubba, but that our rhetoric was too "hot" to convince the undecideds.

This time it will be the DemonRats who destroy themselves.

So9

[William McKinley]

Lots of 'commentable' lines in this article.

And if you probe into the Democratic mind at the current moment, you sense that the rage, the passion, the fighting spirit are all fueled not only by opposition to Bush policies, but also by powerlessness.

Actually, the rage is much more about powerlessness than it is about opposition to Bush policies.

[Dog]

OMG!

When did Lurch say this??

Janet Reno recalls her visit to the Dachau concentration camp, and points out that the Holocaust happened because many Germans just stood by. "And don't you just stand by," she exhorts her Democratic audience.

The storm trooping witch just called us Nazis!!!!!

[oceanview]

Howard Dean's son was just arrested for felony burglary, I don't know how to post a breaking news thread....

[Gunslingr3]

But if you listened to liberal rhetoric, you would think America was convulsed in a Manichean struggle of good against evil. Here, for example, is the liberal playwright Tony Kushner addressing the graduating seniors at Columbia College in Chicago. This passage is not too far off from the rhetoric one can find in liberal circles every day:

And this is what I think you have gotten your education for. You have presumably made a study of how important it is for people--the people and not the oil plutocrats, the people and not the fantasists in right-wing think tanks, the people and not the virulent lockstep gasbags of Sunday morning talk shows and editorial pages and all-Nazi all-the-time radio ranting marathons, the thinking people and not the crazy people, the rich and multivarious multicultural people and not the pale pale grayish-white cranky grim greedy people, the secular pluralist people and not the theocrats, the misogynists, Muslim and Christian and Jewish fundamentalists, the hard-working people and not the people whose only real exertion ever in their whole parasite lives has been the effort it takes to slash a trillion plus dollars in tax revenue and then stuff it in their already overfull pockets.

Keeping money you've earned is 'parasitic'. Orwell was such a f***ing genius...

[Williams]

The democrats have been like this a long time, they just aren't getting away with it right now. Their favorite comments about conservatives/moderates is that they are "dangerous" or even "fascists". And like the spoiled brat leftists they are, they believe it. There really is no longer any moderate democrat party.

[Dog]

Allow me.....then you post what you heard....

[Semper Paratus]

Actually, the rage is much more about powerlessness than it is about opposition to Bush policies.

May left friend doesn't want to talk politics with me anymore.
He probably knows that what will come out of his mouth be correctly seen as irrational ravings.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Wasn't Jefferson Davis a Democrat??

In those days that meant something. Today, it means nothing important.

[Miss Marple]

Wowsers! How old is his son?

[oceanview]

MSNBC just reported it. Dean's son and friends broke into a storage room at a country club (this is how it was initially described) and stole liquor. Geez, why didn't they just buy it?

[Dog]

Give me a source??

[oceanview]

17 years old, but according to the report I heard on MSNBC, he is facing an adult felony charge. this was reported as breaking news during the Pat Buchanan show...