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Luis Viera: Democrats, please don’t concede the South to the Republican Party
The Tampa Tribune ^ | December 20, 2014 | Luis E. Viera

Posted on 12/20/2014 7:37:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...is defunct thanks not only to Republican redistricting but also Democratic malfeasance. Furthermore, a national trend of Democrats stressing liberal positions on social issues has harmed all moderate candidates, especially in the South. The national Democratic Party commits itself to liberal positions on gay marriage, abortion rights and gun control, with limited room for local accommodation.
IOW, the only thing holding back the Democrats from total annihilation is the stupidity of people like the author of this screed, who value brand name over quality, and vote straight ticket or not at all.
21 posted on 12/20/2014 8:05:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: sickoflibs; Jane Long; notted; no-to-illegals; ken5050; TADSLOS; GOPJ; Tennessee Nana; Hostage; ...
FReepers, bear with me.....I had a blood-curdling nightmare last night.

I dreamed Al Sharpton was representing the US govt in Hollywood to make non-racist movies.

Obama Productions' first picture was titled: "RAMPANT RACISM: the Story of Tawana Brawley."

I woke up in a cold sweat---thank God it's only a horrible dream from eating fried chicken late at night.

22 posted on 12/20/2014 8:06:55 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Mickey Kaus at the time wrote the Democrats needed to get out of promoting the 1960s counter-culture policies.

At the time I was a Democrat and I felt the party should move to where the American people were, to move to the middle.

Welfare reform, school choice, support for the death penalty - stuff like that I found very attractive and I thought the DLC might breathe new life into a moribund party.

Sad to say, it slid back into its bad old ways, like returning to a pair of comfortable slippers. For liberals, it was just too much change to bear.


23 posted on 12/20/2014 8:09:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
That assumes Latinos are racist voters like blacks.

Not racist per se. La raza. Return land to Mehico

24 posted on 12/20/2014 8:11:14 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 353FMG

It was probably Strom Thurman, (D) then (R), S.C.


25 posted on 12/20/2014 8:14:57 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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This is the way it is, Luis....live with it.

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

<><> REPUBLICANS WON A STUNNING ELECTORAL HISTORY...

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

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

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

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

<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.

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

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (per Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass. .

<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton's politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> An Arizona House recount race went Republican.

<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),

<><> Repub McSally's win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,

<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II.

<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

<><>Republican Congress holds largest House majority in 83 years...

26 posted on 12/20/2014 8:16:27 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I assume nothing. How such a demographic plays out is unknown until it happens. One scenario is a huge win for Dhimmicrat Marxism.

Illegal is illegal. My grandparents came here legally. It’s not only not fair (to those who won’t enter illegally). It can seriously tip the scales toward Marxists like zer0bama.


27 posted on 12/20/2014 8:17:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Liz

All of which means absolutely nothing if its content to implement Obama’s agenda.

Victory is fleeting.


28 posted on 12/20/2014 8:18:19 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: MuttTheHoople

My thought exactly. Isn’t that sort of what the founders had in mind?


29 posted on 12/20/2014 8:20:16 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Luis Viera: Democrats, please don’t concede the South to the Republican Party;

You do remember the last tome all you uppity southerners voted for Republicans right? Don’t think for a second that we proud DEMOCRATS won’t reactivate our enforcement division, the Klu Klux Klan.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1523692/posts


30 posted on 12/20/2014 8:33:03 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: goldstategop
Conservative Southern Democrats are as extinct as the dodo and they won’t be coming back.

And this Viera fellow rightly fears that "moderate Southern Democrats" are right behind them.

31 posted on 12/20/2014 8:34:18 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: goldstategop

What they have left is running other racial candidates. Put in mind that Obama wasn’t up for election this year. Large groups of people boasted about voting a black man, or a man like them to the presidency in 2008 as well as in 2012. Many of these fanatical voters don’t have a reason to show up to the polls in 2014.


32 posted on 12/20/2014 8:38:06 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Vaquero

Same with my Grandparents, they had to cross the ocean to leave the prospect of living in postwar Austria after they left Heufeld, Yugoslavia to avoid being under Soviet Occupation. Checked in, filled out the work, lived in a primitive glorified garage until they built their home 200 feet away up outside of a small town in rural New York.


33 posted on 12/20/2014 8:41:17 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats in the South survived as a legacy of the Civil War- a way of maintaining a separate identity even in defeat. They benefited considerably from the New Deal and the Great Society as they could buy votes from the largesse created thereby. However, at the national level, the Democrats have become the party of sodomy, socialism, secularism, appeasement, gun control and human sacrifice, aka abortion, which are positions no civilized human could accept, let alone an American, and less still a true Southerner. Thus, they lost a lot of support- local Dems cannot separate themselves from this vile stew of offal no matter how they try. The Democrats have to pin their hopes in the South on migrants from the NE, keeping the blacks on the Democrat plantation, and in the future a horde of Latin Americans. For the time being, that is a rather thin base, but I do not see that lasting forever.


34 posted on 12/20/2014 8:48:14 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
which leaves three Democratic Southern U.S. Senators

who are they?

35 posted on 12/20/2014 8:49:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Morpheus2009

Mine came over here in the first decade of the 20th century and lived in slums in lower NYC. They busted their rears to improve themselves and succeeded for themselves and ultimately my parents and myself.


36 posted on 12/20/2014 8:50:03 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: central_va

Mark Warner, Tim Kaine and Bill Nelson.


37 posted on 12/20/2014 8:53:50 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: goldstategop
They’re figuring out to lie better not to move to the center.

LOL - you're right... his point was to 'lie better'...

Democrats should run:

white liberal elites with their noses stuck in the air

communists with back room delusions of mass murder

blacks with chips on their shoulders

union goons with mob connections

dependent angry women

illegals

Hollywood whore mongers

and common drug dealers.

Who knows, maybe they can 'win' being themselves... /s

38 posted on 12/20/2014 8:54:49 AM PST by GOPJ (Lieawatha/Obama - Obama for the tint on his skin. Lieawatha for what's missing between her legs...)
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To: darkangel82

Couldn’t get Bill Nelson. Thanks.


39 posted on 12/20/2014 8:56:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

A “free market Jesus paradise”....... a doable plan conservatives can get behind 1000%.


40 posted on 12/20/2014 8:59:18 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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