Southern Democrats Urge a Return to Party Basics (more Taxes)

Real Clear Politics ^ | November 28,2014 | By Bill Barrow

[Hojczyk]

Southern Democrats are joining others in the party who say that a return to advocating to lift people out of economic hardship and emphasizing spending on education and public works will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well.

"It's time to draw a line in the sand and not surrender our brand," Rickey Cole, the party chairman in Mississippi, said. He believes candidates have distanced themselves from the past half-century of Democratic principles.

"We don't need a New Coke formula," Cole said. "The problem is we've been out there trying to peddle Tab and RC Cola."

Cole and other Southern Democrats acknowledge divisions with prominent populists such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Yet they see merit in pushing stronger voting rights laws, tighter bank regulation, labor-friendly policies such as a higher minimum wage and other familiar party themes.

Democratic politics have become a tough sell in the conservative South. A major challenge in the region is finding candidates who can win high-profile races now that Republicans, who scored well in midterm elections earlier this month, dominate the leadership in state legislatures and across statewide offices.

[headstamp 2]

Yeah, time to double down.

That’s the ticket.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...and emphasizing spending on education...

Education itself will not "lift people out of economic hardship" but SPENDING on "education" will. Hmmm. Typical dumbass DemocRATS.

[BlackAdderess]

Huh, party split. Certainly there has been a faction of lefists that has been doing everything possible to get rid of the blue dog dems, and certainly the democrats loss is the GOPs gain. Not sure how they plan to reconcile that. Oh wait, maybe the same way the know-it-all new-world-order types in the GOP reconciled with frustrated voters who just want their #@%& representatives to do their jobs, they will just lie.

[DoodleDawg]

Southern Democrats are joining others in the party who say that a return to advocating to lift people out of economic hardship and emphasizing spending on education and public works will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well.

So why do Democrats condemn the thousands of jobs that would be created by the Keystone pipeline by saying that they're just temporary construction jobs and will be gone once the pipeline is done while at the same time talking about spending billions on rebuilding the infrastructure? Aren't those also construction jobs that will be gone once the road or the bridge or the building is done?

[Hojczyk]

People in the south woke up to Democratic rule in the 1970”s…it has been a long hard climb…it started on the local level and has made its way to the governors…notice the the article says conservative south..the GOP needs to send the message north…it has been an economic change …most southern cities are way more people friendly than any city in the north east….there are a few cities still under Democratic control and you do not want to live there….One must remember the Southern Democrats helped pass the Reagan Tax reforms…

[eyeamok]

Democratic politics have become a tough sell in the conservative South

The last time the Demonrat party was faced with this challenge, they CREATED THE KKK, Maybe they will re-activate it??

[Liz]

Democratic politics have become a tough sell in the conservative South. A major challenge is finding candidates who can win high-profile races now that Republicans, who scored well in midterms, dominate the leadership in state legislatures and across statewide offices..... they acknowledge divisions with prominent populists such as Hillary Rodham Clinton.....

Hillary's BIG problem is in ALL the states.

As the treasure trove of "The Midterm Democrat Demolition Derby" (and down-ticket state wins) have yet to be fully- mined, this we know:

<><> Democrat losses stretch from sea-to-shining-sea.

<><> Democrat losses were most noticeable from the Carolinas westward to Texas.

<><> As Landrieu's loss looms, Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber.

<><> Of the 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.

<><> Even Arkansas and Illinois (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in prez races since guvs control party machinery.

<><> the GOP's majority in the House will be so big and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Democrats can't recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

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HOW TO RECOUP? Dem policy-makers are talking up the Clinton's fave---"Unapologetic populism"----reinforcing that the Democratic Party is for justice and opportunity—with no qualifiers—for everyone.

Yeah, sure--- "opportunity and justice for everyone"----just as long as you're not one of those stupid mental defectives taking up space in Democrat Utopia.

[mrsmel]

Yep. Now that they’ve managed to shove baby murder, sodomite “marriage”, attacks on Biblical (true) Christianity, social engineering, CommieCare and more, down our throats, they think that they can get us to forget all that while they focus on the fiscal side of things. No sale here.

[Sherman Logan]

A bit very well written article. But I think the idea they’re straining towards is a good one.

The Democratic Party for the last couple of decades has increasingly been an alliance of elites (and elite wannabees) and the underclass against the middle.

Sadly, the Republican Party has similarly abandoned the interests of most Americans, as can be seen by Romney’s idiotic campaign apparently based on the votes of existing and potential entrepenuers.

Neither party is presently addressing the issues and concerns of most Americans.

[Liz]

Democrats hope that the historic nature of a Hillary Clinton run could lead to a different, but still vibrant, electorate....the first woman president would likely generate outsized enthusiasm among young and single female voters, which could offset drops in other parts of the electorate. "Women will love it, and so will other groups, including young voters”...Democrats say.

Bullhockey.....maybe a kick in the rear would make them face reality. The midterm women's vote was a bomb---only one of the women Hillary campaigned for won. Candidates mentioning the War on Women nonsense were laughed off the stage. Texas' Abortion Darling collapsed and so did Sandra "The Vagina" Fluck.

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CLINTON GRUBERING---Bill is already laying the groundwork for Hillary---hoping "stupid Americans" will ignore the details.

"We had 100 times as many people move from poverty into the middle class," Bill Clinton told an appreciative audience during a cocktail hour hosted by POLITICO, marking the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center. "This shows the importance of policy," he continued. "We can do this again.”

Clinton plumb "forgot" MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber crunched those numbers for the ever-ambitious Clintons....basing the numbers on the Clintons' knee-bending abortion worship. Read on.

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World Net Daily reported November 14, 2014
BY Jerome R. Corsi / FR Posted by Cincinatus' Wife

NEW YORK – Obamacare architect, Jonathan Gruber, (exposed for his frank admissions that passing Obama's signature legislation required lying to "stupid" Americans)......published a paper during the Clinton administration observing that legalizing abortion saved the government $14B in assistance to economically disadvantaged mothers, including African Americans.....and lowered crime.

MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber argued in his Clinton paper that without the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, “marginal children” would have been born to many poor mothers. Gruber said statistics show these aborted children would have been 70 percent more likely to live in a single-parent family, 40 percent more likely to live in poverty, 50 percent more likely to receive welfare and 35 percent more likely to die as an infant.

Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner in their bestselling 2005 book, “Freakonomics,” relied on MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber’s work to argue that legalizing abortion was responsible for an approximately 50 percent reduction of crime in major urban centers in the early 1990s. more at wnd.com

[rhinohunter]

Tab and RC Cola

So he's equating Tab and RC with baby killing and fudge-packing?

[BlackAdderess]

You are right

[Sherman Logan]

Actually, meant to say it’s “not” a very well written article. Apparently fingers got displaced on the keyboard.

[Dr. Pritchett]

“OUR BRAND!!”

Well, at least he admits it! Finally!

[BlackAdderess]

Autocorrect sort of reminds me of our politicians, they will take what you say and change it into something totally random.

[WKUHilltopper]

“Southern Democrats Urge a Return to Party”

What would that be? Lynchings and cross burnings?

[WKUHilltopper]

“Southern Democrats Urge a Return to Party basics”

What would that be? Lynchings and cross burnings?

[GenXteacher]

Nobody who supports gay marriage, abortion, gun control, and secularism will do well in the South, outside of the college towns and urban Yankee enclaves.

[VOR78]

What, you mean that being pro-gay rights, pro-illegal immigration, anti-religious freedom, anti-2nd amendment, and in favor of race baiting and class warfare isn’t selling well for the Democraps in the South?

I’m absolutely shocked that southerners aren’t just flocking to the Democrats after the Dems have spent the last decade plus waging a culture war on them, constantly telling them that they’re a bunch of worthless, racist, redneck fools.