The Coming Democratic Dominance: Majority Rules

The New Republic ^ | 7/25/02 | John B. Judis & Ruy Teixeira

[tomkat]

yes, a very well reasoned piece.
but my gut still tells me CW2 is waitin' down the road a piece ...

hope i'm wrong

[Jim Noble]

>>The Republicans have a much larger reserve of untapped (apathetic?) voters who will have to be motivated to go to the polls<<

There have been three definitive election results since 1980-the two Reagan wins, and the 1994 House sweep.

In each case, Republicans who were "too conservative to win" led the way. The current strategy of triangulation is doomed to fail.

Are there enough conservative Republican elected officials to go back to Reaganism?

[HumanaeVitae]

Thanks. I love this place. And no, I don't write for a living...$$$ isn't that great.

[Jhoffa_]

Bush and Rove have admitted as much by co-opting Democratic rhetoric on key domestic issues--from prescription drugs to environmental enforcement to corporate reform--rather than arguing, as Ronald Reagan did in the early '80s and Gingrich did in the mid-'90s, against greater government regulation.

Some of us would take issue with your use of the word "arguing"

We prefer to think of it as "educating" and in case you didn't notice.. it worked when we tried it.

[willyone]

They have something very important. The money of the working people of the country. Also the number of tax receivers now equals that of those paying. Plus the huge numbers of illegal voters. Can you say third world hellhole coming soon to you neighborhood. Many in Cali. have alredy gotten to enjoy our diversity.

[Jim Noble]

>>he other 50% finds its moral foundations in the 1960's, when a new generation insisted to anyone who would listen that moral barriers meant nothing, that drugs and loose sex were the way to go. Not every Gore voter behaves that way, but they believe that people should if they like, and the rest of us should facilitate it<<

But their "morality" is unsustainable, and ours is powerful and permanent.

[Jhoffa_]

There is a school of thought that considers this to be a good thing though. Especially the Hispanics, they are supposed to be "stealth" conservatives.. Just waiting to vote for us if only we weren't so mean and nasty about our borders.

If we would just bring them all in then the tide would turn and they would be Conservatives and everything will be wonderful!

(I know, I didn't buy it either..)

[Jhoffa_]

..it won't take long before general disgust (not to mention shrinking paychecks) will catapult them so far over the castle walls it'll take a generation to get back in shouting distance.

Not if they can blame their failures on someone else.

I have been waiting for the same logic to catapult despots, dictators and incompetents our of power all over the world and it isn't happening.

Look at Great Britan, they are pretty left leaning and Tony Blair is still going strong. Mugabe and Yassir are good examples from the extreme end of the scale.

With the media as a willing accomplace the general public may never realize just how far is too far.

[Lancey Howard]

These authors are really reaching.
The Democrats are still the party of ignorant malcontents, "oppressed" minority victim groups, union troglodytes, homosexual activists, Hollywood pedophiles, and welfare parasites. Of these, the welfare parasites represent the Democrat "base" and the economy will play a role in "dominance" by one party or the other based on how many new parasites are created versus how many successful producers emerge from economic conditions.

This is not rocket science:
If the Democrats are the party of the poor and the weak, guess what Democrats want more of?
Obviously, they want more losers.

And if Republicans are the party of the rich and the successful, guess what the Republicans want more of?
Obviously, they want more winners.

The Democrats are desperately hoping for economic collapse and they will do whatever they can to enable it. They need more parasites.

[Lancey Howard]

I won't even go into the budget crunch that's going to come in about 10 years when the Baby Boom retires. Where's the money going to come from for all these great new programs? If the Democrats are in power, they'll face the same kind of "Third-Way" problem Tony Blair is facing right now: eventually you have to choose between cutting services or raising taxes. Blair just raised taxes. Wonder what the Democrats would do in a similar situation.

I wonder what the Republicans will do.

[tet68]

A Democrat majority over MY dead body.

Of course the mistake the writer makes is to classify rural as farm/agricultural etc. Actually as flight from the crime ridden cities continues, and folks move their business and homes farther out, the Republicans will continue to make gains, in spite of all democrat attempts to manipulate the economy and voters fears.

[TLBSHOW]

Look who they vote into office. I know I am not being PC. LOL

[RLK]

What existed in the last election was one party representing abortions, environmental hysteria, homosexuality, and counterculturalism fielding one halfwith for president, against another halfwit who wants to merge the United States with Mexico and send American industries to China. The entire scene is certified by the leftist media. A majorits of the people have nothing to represent them and don't show up to vote for good reason.

[Chunga]

More rubbish from RLK, the illiterate pontificator.

[GraniteStateConservative]

That's right, the Pat Robertson/John Ashcroft crowd.

You're half-right. Robertson is more aligned with the Southern Baptist denomination than any of the several pentecostal denominations. Ashcroft, though is the most powerful pentecostal ever-- being only the deaths of GWB, Cheney, Hastert, Byrd, Powell, O'Neill (isn't it laughable by the way that someone as missing in action as Paul is this close to being president), and Rumsfeld away from being the leader of the free world. His father was a pastor in the Assemblies of God in fact.

[GraniteStateConservative]

In each case, Republicans who were "too conservative to win" led the way.

You don't think Bush's 1988 landslide win where he won nearly 80% of the electoral vote was definitive? And Clintton's job approvals before the 1994 midterms were horrid. His disapproval and approval numbers were equal-- few were undecided. That was a recipe for huge GOP gains. Folks like Greg Ganske who are being booed here at FR as RINOs won in 1994-- not just J. D. Hayworth and other conservatives.

[andy_card]

Actually, it will be closer to 2020 that whites become a minority in their own country...

Who cares (other than Pat Buchanan)? Culture, not race, is what matters. Did America fall apart when WASPs became a minority? Don't think so

[andy_card]

GWB, Cheney, Hastert, Byrd, Powell, O'Neill

President Byrd? Jeeze. You don't need to let the line of succession get to Airhead O'Neill. Byrd would be bad enough. Its very scary that Richard Nixon considered the man for the Supreme Court.

[Zack Nguyen]

Amen.

[Consort]

It's time to seriously consider a political coalition — but who do we coalit with?