The Wimps of War : ( Here's how bad things are for the Democrats.-- Sounds good to me! )

The New York Times ^ | March 30, 2002 | FRANK RICH

[Rubber Ducky]

". . . incumbent Senate Democrats are demonized as partisans who will "put their interests ahead of national interests."

Nothing hurts quite as bad as the spot on truth, does it?

[CasearianDaoist]

That will start tomorrow morning.

[FreedomPoster]

Is there one Democrat that anyone can visualize in a combat situation??

I enjoy visualizing numerous Democrats in combat situations. I'd love to see Daschle, Lieberman, Schumer, Feinstein, Waters, and McKinney in foxholes on the top of a mountain in Afghanistan, with 1000 Al Quedas bearing down.

[summer]

For the NYT's to print this... It must be bad times for the RATS...

That's what I was thinking -- must be really bad times for the Democrats....

[Miss Marple]

Hmmmm. First we have the Ellen Ratner column, and then we have this one from Frank Rich of the New York Times.

I would say that Terry McAuliffe has been given warning. I believe we will see him getting even more combative and shrill as the elections approach.

Its a good thing.

[McCloud-Strife]

It is in times like these that I am glad, to paraphrase Rush: "Those are OUR planes again."

[summer]

I believe we will see him [McAuliff] getting even more combative and shrill as the elections approach.

I think you're right. And, what a turn-off to most voters.

[summer]

I agree.

[maica]

This reads like a treatise of all the dem talking points. They really are walking in quicksand, now. Couldn't happen to nicer people!!

I happened to see a few minutes of Crossfire last night (Wheel of Fortune was preempted!) and heard Shrum articulate this kind of garbage. Americans are not going to buy the dem mantras in November. McAuliffe and Clinton are irrelevant in these serious times.

Shrum and Press still have the blinders on; Frank Rich and Ellen Ratner are beginning to look at the truth.

[jokemoke]

This is a CLASSIC! Thanks for posting it, I needed a good laugh this morning.

[jokemoke]

Did I miss anything?

Yes, creating the GREAT DIVIDE in America.

[GailA]

Yep, HIGHER TAXES!

[FLCowboy,]

It isn't treason for a party out of power in wartime to talk about these matters. If anything, it's the Democrats' patriotic responsibility not just to hold up their end of the national dialogue over the war's means and ends, but to say where they want to take the country in peace. Yet now that they've capitulated on issues ranging from fuel-economy standards to gun control, the sum of a Democratic social vision these days often seems to have dwindled down to a prescription drug program for Medicare patients.

It might just be that the country has just about given away all that can be given to the poor people short of perhaps socialism, which will never fly even among the moderate Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats can no longer scare the people into high taxation and benign representation.

I think this translates into a large Republican victory in 2002, and yet again in 2004.

[AntiDemocrat]

I can't honestly say I feel any pity for the party of Leftists. In fact, I'm enjoying their demise.

[Liz]

Did I miss anything?

8. Having the worst candidates for office.

9. Electing the most deplorable people to office.

10. Losing elections with the biggest landslides.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good list!

[Grampa Dave]

Actually I started to label our home grown lefties and the ones overseas, THE AXIS OF WHINING WEASELS!, shortly after GW came out with the term AXIS OF EVIL.

You knew that he had struck a home run when the lefties all over the world and here started to whine about it. These whiners are perfectly described as:

THE AXIS OF WHINING WEASELS!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Are you getting the new layout figured out?

[okie01]

This pullquote tells you how bad it is for the Dems:

"...in the hopeful formulation of the best-selling populist Michael Moore,"

When the eminent (in his own mind) Frank Rich of the NYTimes has nothing better to do than throw flower petals in the path of "best-selling jerk-off Michael Moore", it has become really, really tough to be a Democrat...

[Grampa Dave]

Actually on the new layout the News Activism section has become easier to operate in just the last few minutes. I'm basically getting what we got yesterday and it is about as fast. The exception is when I click on a new thread, and it is like pouring 32 degree molasses.

This morning it was like trying to walk on a floor covered with molasses and super glue with all the pictures and the full articles.

I have a new 1.8 ghz Pentium 4 computer with 512 mgs of memory and a few other goodies to speed things up, my new URL is connecting at 50K. It was taking forever this morning to load up a new thread. It still takes a long time to get to a new thread.

On self search it is still slow with too much verbage to scan and see who replied to me or pinged me. This morning it took forever.

Before the changes with the new computer, I could come in, read the lates threads and respond to them, and then clear out a lot of replies and be off in about an hour. This morning even with the new computer it took hours, and I never got to most of the replies to me.

Freepers with slower computers and hookups must be doing house hold work in between threads and reply searches. I really preferred the old self seach with the thread and the reply with who replied. If a clymer replied, I just ignore them. I could go through and scan 30 50 replies in a short time with the self search system we just left with my new computer. Then, I could prioritize my responses to the good people like you.