Posted on 06/15/2006 4:40:03 AM PDT by IrishMike
Well, it looks like that ''culture of corruption'' ploy didn’t work out too well for Democrats last week in California. But after Brian Bilbray won disgraced Duke Cunningham’s seat, some liberals quickly changed tack to claim that he did it by using the illegal immigration issue as a ''scare tactic.''
This sounds strange coming from folks who regularly warn that Republicans will starve children, throw old ladies out into the streets, etc., but such is life when you’re on a losing streak. Year after year, defeats leave modern Democrats scratching their heads and navel-gazing, trying in vain to hit upon better ways to ''get their message out.'' But that’s the problem. Their message has been resounding for decades: they’re liberals. Some Democrats understand that one of the reasons they lose is that instead of finding ways to win, they’d rather rehash their losses. Washington Post writer Dan Balz points out: They are experts at commissioning papers analyzing their weaknesses. (“Why we can’t win with______.” Fill in the blank with “white men,” “married women,” “rural voters,” “people of faith,” “more Latinos,” “the middle class,” or whatever group is considered the party’s latest demographic debacle.) In spite of this self-realization that they may be out of the mainstream, certain lefties out in cyberspace continue to delude themselves into thinking that the key to producing electoral victories is to harness the power of Al Gore’s internet. Last week’s Las Vegas convention of liberal bloggers sponsored by Daily Kos is proof positive that these delusions will happily continue.
(Excerpt) Read more at chronwatch.com ...
Two years later, it seems as if history might repeat itself. As the Washington Times reports, “a poll earlier this year on the Daily Kos revealed 41 percent of those surveyed said they ‘despise’ Mr. Bush more than they despise Osama bin Laden.” And one patriotic ''Kos-sack'' remarking on the death of Abu Musab Zarqawi said, “Now we are rid of one murderous tyrant--how about the removal of another one--believed to be hiding in a safe-house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Surely, no mainstream Democrat would lend legitimacy to this leftwing hate-fest? Yet there they were: Senators Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer; presidential hopefuls Mark Warner, Tom Vilsack, and Bill Richardson, and naturally DNC Chairman Dr. Dean, eager to rub elbows with the likes of Kos founder, Markos Moulitsas.
What was the media reaction? The New York Times cheerfully covered the event as if it were a meeting of the League of Women Voters, cooing: “Indeed, the convention, the first of what organizers said would become an annual event, seems on the way to becoming as much a part of the Democratic political circuit as the Iowa State Fair.”
Yet when Bill Frist appeared last year on a remote broadcast sponsored by the Family Research Council on the filibustering of judicial nominees, the media reacted predictably. Indignant that the FRC suggested Democrats were blocking judges who were ''people of faith,'' the Times growled, “It is one thing when private groups foment this kind of intolerance. It is another thing entirely when it’s done by the highest-ranking member of the United States Senate.”
The fact is that the liberal platform of today’s Democratic Party is buttressed mostly by those who are members of radical factions like Daily Kos. Its tactical planks--charges of Republican bigotry and disdain for the environment; sowing mistrust of corporations, and the populist drivel that tax cuts only benefit the rich--are becoming a tough sell to the growing number of Americans who use the Internet, not as a political tool, but as an alternative news source.
...but don't question their patriotism < /barf >
The DBM/dems are writing the play-book on not only How Not To Win Elections, but how to remain indelibly committed to espousing idiocy.
They want to get their message out? Great! The Democrats have yet to figure out that they lose nationally because they DO get their message out.
Slick willie got into bed with the Chinese, Indonesians, and assorted other evildoers.
He took a chance and flew into Pakistan in exchange for a $75,000 campaign donation.
..Slick willie got into bed with the Chinese, Indonesians, and assorted other evildoers.....
Sold the Whitehouse when he and Hildabeast converted it into a bed & breakfast.
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Sadly, most of his cohorts on the left would gladly sacrifice Israel without a second thought.
That said, he sold his soul to be on the ticket with albore and he was part of the scheme to disenfranchise the military votes in Florida.
Don't they actually have to HAVE a message first? All I hear is "Bush bad".
X42 never did have an allegiance to our country.
Mmmm...I'll bet Rep. Tom Lantos (D California) does.
". . .they ‘despise’ Mr. Bush more than they despise Osama bin Laden."
That presumes that they actually despise OBL. They don't.
". . .they ‘despise’ Mr. Bush more than they despise Osama bin Laden."
That presumes that they actually despise OBL. They don't.
I thought about, it's a caption from the article.
I left it in because it says ' more than'.
Great post.
It's dems who want to give away grandma's social security - to illegals. Disability payments for the illegals, their kids, and full social security for soon to arrive elderly parents.
That's throwing American old ladies out into the streets.
Ping
Wow!! Stop the presses!!
This is a major news flash.
Ever since 9/11 the Democrats have known that since it occurred on Bush's watch, that the subsequent reaction of Bush to go after all terrorists world-wide, would leave the Democratic Party in a state of IRRELEVANCE for decades to come. Knowing how completely visionary, and yes . . . radical Bush's War On Terror is, the Democrats simply can't afford to be his ally. Why? Because they place their own power over the safety and security of this nation, and every other free and democratic nation. They would rather hold both Houses of Congress and the White House, in the midst of world-wide chaos and despotism. They are always on the "wrong side of history," but their greed for power just consumes them. They literally have no choice but to oppose Bush and ALL his national security/foreign policy decisions. To do so would be suicide. Very, very sad.
To support Bush's policies would be political suicide. Say what you want about Dems, but politics is their only core value. Politics of Power.
It is indeed sickening that we live in a time when Democrats actually court a group of people who call for the assassination of the President of the United States of America.
Simply disgusting.
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