Posted on 07/23/2006 6:28:22 PM PDT by skandalon
Why have the Democrats proven so inept at electorally exploiting the growing evidence of the current Republican Party’s incompetence at governing? The Democrats certainly have a chance of doing well in the November elections, but why is this merely a possibility?
In 1980, just half a dozen years after the GOP’s Watergate humiliation, voters responded to the Carter administration’s failures by electing a Republican president and Senate and scaring enough House Democrats that Ronald Reagan was able to pass much of his agenda. After five-and-a-half years of George W. Bush’s presidency, it’s reasonably clear that he wasn’t qualified for the job and hasn’t exactly grown in office. The GOP establishment, which anointed Bush in 1999 even though many had personal experience of his unsuitability for the highest office, deserves punishment for negligence. Yet no Democrat—with the longshot exception of Virginia senatorial candidate James Webb—has emerged to offer the galvanizing change in direction and tone that Reagan once brought to the Republicans.
The satirical Onion headline earlier this year said it all: “Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness.” If the voters turn to the Democrats this fall, it will only be as the lesser of two evils. America needs a less self-destructive Democratic Party, if just to keep Republican officeholders on their toes.
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Sailer writing something like this shows his own incredible bias.
What’s Wrong With the Democrats?
Everything. Next question?
So, the only praise goes to Hezbollah and Hamas and their goal to eradicate Israel.
What was wrong with the Whigs back in the 1850's?
A better question would be: "What's Right With the Democrats?"
They were pro-choice on the most important moral issue of the day?
This is a bogus question - it assumes that the Republican party has shown incompetence at governing. I propose that while there are many things that I don't like about our current government (and nowhere near all are related to the Republicans), I do not see evidence that there is incompetence for the most part.
In other words, the democRATs have nothing to capitalize on, which is why they haven't done so. You can't walk into the bank with a blank piece of paper and expect to withdraw a huge sum of money. Likewise, the Dems can't approach the voters empty-handed and expect to walk away with a win.
Overall, the GOP isn't screwed up. There are far more conservative Republicans than RINOs in Congress. Good conservatives such as Pence, Tancredo, Sessions, Sesenbrenner, etc. Despite not vetoing the spending and the borders, Bush has delivered. 2 conservative Supremes. More conservative federal judges. A pro-American UN ambassador. Tax cuts. Opening the debate on SS reform. Should we stay home and not support them because they're not pure as the driven conservative snow?
| Presidential Candidate | Party | Home State | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | Running Mate | Running Mate's Home State |
Running Mate's Electoral Vote |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | |||||||
| George W. Bush | Republican | Texas | 50,460,110 | 47.9% | 271 | Dick Cheney | Wyoming | 271 |
| Al Gore | Democratic | Tennessee | 51,003,926 | 48.4% | 266 | Joe Lieberman | Connecticut | 266 |
| (abstention) (a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | 1 | (abstention) (a) | (n/a) | 1 |
| Ralph Nader | Green | Connecticut | 2,883,105 | 2.7% | 0 | Winona LaDuke | Minnesota | 0 |
| Pat Buchanan | Reform | Virginia | 449,225 | 0.4% | 0 | Ezola B. Foster | California | 0 |
| Harry Browne | Libertarian | Tennessee | 384,516 | 0.4% | 0 | Art Olivier | California | 0 |
| Howard Phillips | Constitution | Virginia | 98,022 | 0.1% | 0 | Curtis Frazier | Missouri | 0 |
| John Hagelin | Natural Law/Reform | Iowa | 83,702 | 0.1% | 0 | Nat Goldhaber | California | 0 |
| Ross Perot | Write-in | Texas | 9 | 0.0% | 0 | None | N/A | 0 |
| Other(b) | 54,652 | 0.1% | 0 | Other(b) | 0 | |||
| Total | 105,417,258 | 100.0% | 538 | Total | 538 | |||
| Needed to win | 270 | Needed to win | 270 | |||||
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)
>>Why have the Democrats proven so inept at electorally exploiting
Reminds me: this weekend they're doing a bunch of Brady Bunch episodes on TV-Land. I was flipping through the channels and it showed the youngest boy, Bobby, looking at all the award
statuettes his sisters and brothers had won (talent, sports, etc.) and he says, "I'm the only one who doesn't have any of these. Why can't I win ANYTHING!" He then puts a Halloween-
mask over his face...
A DONKEY mask! I laughed out loud! How ironic! "Why can't
I win ANYTHING!"
What's wrong with the Democrats?
They want Socialism AND WE DON'T!!!!
Really not a bad article. It does point out the challenges facing the democrats quite well.
What's wrong with the Demoncrats? They have been overtaken by an anti-U.S. group of lunatics.
No, of course not. I didn't mean that we should.
It's just that, now that we've got both branches of Congress and the White House, well, it's like a dream that I never thought I'd see, and sometimes it seems like we're not doing very much with it. Denny Hastert, with his stupid position on the William Jefferson papers, really irks me.
You're right, though, about the things that have been accomplished. And there's no denying that, were the donkeys in power, we'd all be saying "how can we get out of this handbasket."
The Democrats are in such a disastrous mess that I think its allowing our side to get fat and complacent. The main thing keeping our side in line is the media, and I include in that the right-wing media, which may be the biggest change of the last 20 years on the political scene. It may even be that we only have both houses and the Presidency because of the new media. That may actually be not too far fetched, although it sounds incredible.
(steely)
I think he's wrong about Webb. He's running on his own past military service and the message that "Iraq is Vietnam". Nothing unusual.
I think he's wrong about Webb. He's running on his own past military service and the message that "Iraq is Vietnam". Nothing unusual.
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