A view from different prism makes these ramblings a bit comical. Here you have good ole Bucks County in Pennsylvania registering a whole bunch of new Democrats in time for the primaries. Explanation has nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos which goes unmentioned as a factor, but tells us conservative Republicans are fed up with that limp wristed weak kneed swamp of GOP known as RINOS as just to "conservative". Huh? Yep. Naturally, they have the factors separating the lefties from the right, and part of that big five is, yes, we guessed it, Terri's Legacy.
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It's not that the party isn't conservative enough to win the suburbs; it is that the party is too conservative and has lost touch with a suburban constituency.
Fault for that lies in the party's national image. Impressions of political parties are established nationally. People don't usually join a political organization based on their sense of the county commissioners, the competence of the row officers, or the performance of the borough council. They choose the party whose platform, they believe, most closely resembles their general views. And those platforms flow from the federal level. They are personified by national players.
In Washington, the GOP has been on the wrong side of many hot-button issues. As these issues have unfolded - the war in Iraq, Terri Schiavo, global warming, stem-cell research, and the ever-present issue of reproductive choice - the Democratic Party has made strides in the suburbs. Instead of listening to its more-moderate voices, the GOP has instead concentrated on stoking its hard-core base - a minority of Americans - by taking time out of the legislative schedule to posture on issues such as same-sex relationships...............
Head Strong: Why the GOP lost its grip on Phila. suburbs
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Here's the first segment of video from the Baby Napalm incident. I'm reposting the description from this thread where I posted links to the transcript.
In Rockford, Illinois, an abortion clinic known as the Northern Illinois Women's Center performs abortions twice a week. On March 29, the clinic was open for business. Two dedicated pro-life activists were there for sidewalk counseling and prayer.A neighborhood resident, Keith, arrived to accost them, making illegal physical contact with one of the men in the first moments of his criminal freakout, issuing forth a stream of vile racial and sexual epithets, threatening the men with his dog, and even voicing his approval for what he himself calls child killing. After a seven minute spree of misdemeanors and behavior that some viewers have described as "demonic," the abortion clinic operator, Wayne Webster, warns Keith that the police are coming and the two make it very clear that Webster has no problem with this vile activity. When police arrive over an hour later, they do nothing about the attack, treat the pro-lifers and their right to free speech derisively and are uninterested when they are informed that there is video evidence of a crime available to them. You see, Keith and Wayne performed for a camera that was in plain sight....
The Baby Napalm Video: Footage of Racist Assault on Pro-Lifers
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