Posted on 11/07/2004 7:04:43 AM PST by shortstop
How much of a beaten, beleaguered, hapless lot of lost pols are the Democrats after Tuesday's ballot box mugging?
Curly Howard didn't get slapped around as much by Moe as did this crowd of Gallup Poll panhandlers.
Good grief, the Washington Generals score more often against the Harlem Globetrotters.
But wait!
It gets worse.
The Iraqi air force had more bench strength than this party, which has about as much of a future at the moment as Yasser Arafat - only less so.
It's one thing to lose an election as John Kerry did.
It's quite another to look into your party's crystal ball and see that Ralph Nader has a better chance of getting elected to the presidency in 2008 than anyone claiming to be a Democrat.
If you were a Democratic Party honcho, which has to feel like presiding over a cootie convention, trying to figure out how to get this Elba of the electorate back on some semblance of viability has to be as daunting a task as rehabilitating Jack Kevorkian's image as a family doctor.
Where to start?
It's a small thing, really, actually more cathartic than anything else, but jettisoning party Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who comes off as the spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Henchmen, would be a tiny step toward restoring a scintilla of dignity to the Democratic cause.
After all, since he's presided over a political party's decline rivaling O.J. Simpson's fall from grace, McAuliffe has more than earned his place in political history as the ebola virus of the Electoral College.
Possible replacements?
Well, there's always former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, or perhaps recently unemployed Sen. Tom Daschle, who would seem to have the inside track since the Democrats wouldn't have to pay for moving expenses.
As for potential Democratic presidential candidates in 2008, the list is shorter than likely husband material for Ellen DeGeneres.
And what very, very few White House aspirants there are would hardly inspire anyone to start whistling the theme to ``Camelot.''
To begin with, can we please, please, please dispense with this Ezra Pound-like delusion that New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Eva Peron of Chappaqua, has any remote prospects to get elected to the presidency of the United States?
Really now, with the possible exception of Ted Kennedy, is there a more polarizing figure on the U.S. political scene than the Mary Todd Lincoln of the left?
Or put more simply: Charles Manson will win parole before the Typhoon Mary of managed care ever haunts the West Wing.
Why does Clinton enjoy a certain counterfeit political currency among the chattering class? Well, compared with the current crop of potential presidential candidates, to some the Kitten With a Tax Code looks downright Margaret Thatcheresque.
Certainly John Edwards can lay some claim to be the heir apparent, but four years between elections can either be a swell opportunity to put together a base constituency or a descent into more obscurity than the Sinclair Broadcasting Corp.
There are precious few others. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is young (49) and certainly would help the party reclaim Midwestern voters, as would Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsak.
The same logic holds true with North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley, 54, in trying to recapture a Southern constituency.
Still, it's abundantly obvious as the Democrats sift through the detritus of Tuesday's results that the dearth of leadership makes the PLO look like a pillar of transitional orderliness.
How bad is it? Howard Dean is probably looking to 2008 and practicing his primal scream.
Uh-oh.
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Chris Matthews just mentioned, on The Chris Matthews Show, that Hillary will never beat the Republicans. Maybe they are learning. But will she be able to convince herself?
"To begin with, can we please, please, please dispense with this Ezra Pound-like delusion that Former Vice President and Failed Presidentil Candidate, Richard Nixon, has any remote prospects to get elected to the presidency of the United States?"
Yo Dem's...Bring It!
Schwartzkopff - Jeb Bush 2008
How do you get Grandma and Grandpa Democrat to vote for gay marriage? How do you get Blacks and Hispanics to vote for gay marriage? How do you get recent Democrat immigrants who are from India, Arab countries and China to vote for gay marriage? It's a lost cause for them.
There's no way that the Democrat's can continue to be a party-of-the-people until it wrests the wild-eyed from the steering wheel of the party. Period. If they throw them out immediately, their recovery can happen overnight!
The radicals really belong in a party of their own. The gay-marriage kooks, enviro-whacko's, peace-queers, activist-atheists, Hollywood -socialists and UN-lover's live in a BizzaroWorld of odd-ball priorities that defy common sense.
Had the Democrat Party nominated Joe Lieberman, he might well be the president-elect at this moment... think about it!
I've been trolling the leftist websites over the weekend to watch the train wrecks up close, and you'd be surprised (or maybe not) and the animosity towards the homos. Love and tolerance as long as you bring something to the table; a pox on you if you take from it. Kinda bass-ackwards for lefties.
Correct. Which is why I'd bet (a small amount) that she voted for Bush against both Gore and Kerry.
--Boris
uh huh.
Shhh...don't let them know that the rubes, rednecks and pajamaheeden are on to them.
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"Or put more simply: Charles Manson will win parole before the Typhoon Mary of managed care ever haunts the West Wing."
What a great laugh, but what a great truth. Hillary would be a greater recruiting tool, free of charge, than her husband EVER was. The democrats are simply stupid. But not that stupid.
Now, now, now, Daniel Ruth apparently doesn't understand Hillary as well as we do. Hillzbella has only one thing in mind and that is to become president of the United States. Again.
She has been setting everything up in the senate to run for the presidency. She has been squashing the ambitions of other democratic senators less they should happen to have a similar ambition to hers. She has done things for other senators which put them in the position of owing Hillary their undying allegiance.
Hunzilla will make sure she runs and will make sure she is the only one who appears to be viable enough to run. Now, now, now, it will be another thing to win.
Nor the snobby, New England elitism that really makes the Dems swoon.
Cartman Voice: Sweeeet!
Please make a note of that as it seems that we'll need it in 08!!!
"Eva Peron of Chappaqua"
Which is why Rudy has to take her Senate seat in 2006. Imagine her not even keeping her "own state".
We're gonna have a wicked hard time winning in 2008 unless we're facing Hillary. And even then it'd be damn hard against Clinton-Richardson driving massive black and Hispanic turnout. THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT EASY PICKINS.
MOST importantly, we need a strong candidate, which is no guarantee. What if we get Rudy, and lose the pro-life vote and turnout? We'd be screwed. What if we nominate a Bob Dole type, or a twerp like Hagel? Possibly screwed.
I dunno. You'd have thought by now that they would KNOW better than to run liberal Democrats from Taxachussetts. We'll see if they can "re-invent" themselves in time.
We've got to take out Obama while he's small. We ignored Bin Ladin, and look what happened!
Obama is trying to be a Democrat "Christian" and morally moderate right now. They're grooming him.
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