You are exactly right about that.........
Posted on 06/16/2002 7:01:11 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Now we are at a point where every disagreement in politics is a personal one. This is what turned many people off to the impeachment hearings. They thought Republicans were doing the same thing. Republicans are much less adept at personal smears and even when they slip into such, they make it clear that it's the ideology that they hate more (re: Hillary).
This behavior for Democrats makes sense, though. Personal demonization brings $$$ into the campaign coffers. Unfortunately, it doesn't resonate with the public.
The Democratic party faithful is to the left of the electorate, but their donors are far, far to the left of the faithful.
The Democrats would be wiser to either ignore Bush or (like Max Baucus!) run with him.
The chickens are coming home to roost for the Dems.
For a couple of generations now they've been beating this drum and chanting this mantra, "The government is here to provide security for you. That's our job. Trust us."
So now that a REAL security threat is here--one that the Constitution actually allows the government to address--they're trying to tell these same sheeple that "the government shouldn't be doing this."
It just won't wash, and even sheeple can smell a rat.
So whats you talking bout,Willis?
They only forgot one thing. They forgot to tell the American people that only applied to Bill Clinton. So Dubya is benefiting from the Clinton rules.
They made new rules for Clinton. It took years. It will take years to tear them down.
They fixed it so Bill Clinton who should have had an approval rating of 40 had a rating of 55. They have also to their consternation fixed it so Dubya you should have an approval rationg of 55 has a about a 70.
You are exactly right about that.........
Their donors -- global corporations -- do business with the statists and authoritarians of the world. Indirectly, it is these global statists and authoritarians who control the party.
It has been well over 50 years since any party has had a majority. Since 1944 no party has had more than about 40 percent of the voters. Today it about even one third are Democrats, one third are Repubulicans, and one third are independents. To take control of government a party and its candidates must get their base and over half the independants. Any candidate or party in a two way race that gets less than half the independents will be defeated.
Thus to control the house senate and to be able to select supreme court judges a President and his party must get over half the independents. It escapes many people that if the independents were attracted to the left's positions,they would be leftists. It escapes nearly all the right that if the center was attracted tot he rights positions they would be conservatives.
The independents are neither left or right. They are(GASP) centerist. To attract the center a party and a candidate must paint the other party for what they are. They must paint themselves as being pretty centerist. When Republicans can paint Democrats as lefists and paint themselves as nearly centerist, they win. It is the only time they ever win. The only time teh Democrats win is when they do the same. Can you say "Bill Clinton is a NEW DEMOCRAT?" Golly Gee why did that liberal do that? Once a party has the center and is safely in office it can and always does move the nation in their political direction.
Thus Daschles strategy from the day he took over was to force Bush to move to the right. If bush bent to his base on CFR or the farm bill or lots of other issues Bush and the Republicans would be painted to the right. Then Daschle and company would get painted centerist for pushing centerist issues. The resulting Democrat victory could dictate the Supreme Court and other justics, and get a lot of what they want done. Once Dubya started down that disasterous road they could very well drive him far enough right to cost him 2004. It did not work. Bush turned it on them. He owns the Center and the left is screwed. That Democratic strategy has indeed backfired. It seems like that Bush and the Republicans can hold an unpresidented portion of the center and even some Democrats.
That leaves the Democrats with just one strategy left. That is try to use bush's success with the center to cost him the right. That is a strategy that Democrats and the media have always used with great success. The Democrats have always understood that they have zero chance to change the nation with out the center. So when Bill Clinton ended welfare as the left had loved it, they understood why it had to be done. For if they had cost Bill the Center, then they would have lost it all.
For once we have a president that understands how the system works. Going for the center costs some of the base. But if done right you can pick up far more center than the part of the base that is lost.
Gore did not understand that in 2000. It cost him the presidency. Bush understands it quite well. They right wing philosophy at all cost people have no clout with Dubya. If Bush pulls it off and it looks very much like he will, the defeatist right and the Daschle left will be equally defeated. That is the best news for Republicans since 1924.
Ironic...
No, my comment which i know some on fr got, was to say that the plan of some "conservatives" on FR is to hurt the Democrats by trashing Bush. At least, let's hope that's their plan.
IMO, that is why you see some rightwing posts here at FreeRepublic that are based more on propaganda slogans and mind control than on actual Constitutional principle and critical thought. These posts appear to originate from the playbooks of the left -- they try to elicit emotion over reason from our FR patriots.
It sure makes it hard to hold Bushs feet to the Constitutional fire when it is the left with their deceptive slogans that attempts to lead the charge.
W has personal approval equal to his job approval and that will tell the tale. Americans trust this president. The RATS only way to bring his numbers down is to sow seeds of doubt and untrustworthiness.
Look at the stock market and they can say, "See the markets don't trust Bush," or "Bush does not know what he is doing with the economy."
American people got smart to Slick and that is why Gore was defeated. Yeah the economy was all right but Clinton was a skank and Gore was his accomplice.
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