The Coming Democratic Dominance: Majority Rules

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

[Zack Nguyen]

In retrospect, Bush's campaign was clumsy. Did you know that his campaign expected 19 million conservative Christians to turn out for them? Only 15 million did. The rest stayed home because Bush was too coy with the pro-life issue. He almost lost the election because of it.

I think the next election will be extremely close. Bush is very very popular, but I believe that a lot of people that like the job he is doing on the war would never consider voting for him when the Democrats come knocking.

[HumanaeVitae]

Hmm...I thought Robertson was a Pentecostal. Anyway, it's a surprising trend. Check out the current First Things. It also has a pretty interesting mutual statement of dialogue between the Catholic Church and several prominent American Protestants (Chuck Colson, etc) on some agreements they have reached on justification and salvation.

[Consort]

...The rest stayed home because Bush was too coy with the pro-life issue.

Self defeating political masochism.

[dennisw]

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[Zack Nguyen]

Bush Sr. never won 80% of the electoral vote. He beat Dukakis 54%-46%. In fact, no Presidential candidate ever at any time has won 80% of the vote. I think both Reagan and Nixon won 60%.

[Zack Nguyen]

Maybe George Washington (or, as some knew him, George W.) won that much of the vote.

[PISANO]

It has been my long held opinion that this country will eventually turn to socialism. The gimmies have the minds and hearts of most immigrants, educators and media. That leaves the "Thin Blue Line" and the US Military as the last bastions of conservatism. Once they are infiltrated, homogenized and feminized we will join the ranks of the Roman Empire and slowly fade away to extinction from within.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Bravo on your reply sir!

[skateman]

I guess we are doomed to follow our parent, Great Britian, into 2nd class status.

[bert]

He incorrectly assigns the city women to the Democrats. The single professional crowd will be scared by the Democrats failure to provide them the security they need. They have swallowed the party line and have chosen the government rather than a husband to provide the security they demand.

The Sunday night supper in a restaurant bunch will vote for Republicans out of insecurity and the fear it brings. War is no time for voting for wimps.

Single professional= degreed and unmarried = spinsters;

Sunday night supper crowd = spinsters who gather together on Sunday night because they want to eat out and won't go Saturday because that is date night and none will admit being dateless.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I said electoral vote-- the kind that put GWB in the WH as opposed to the popular vote-- the kind that wasn't sufficient to put Gore in the WH.

[junta]

According to Spengler those are one and the same and with our polices since we have formed as a nation regarding immigration the actual immigrants have greatly effected our course. The WASP's were a continuation of Britian and its emerging liberal traditions while the actual people of the "Great Wave" were non-WASP and brought with them the policies of Europe post Marx/Engels. The post 65 wave brings the ideas and culture of their home countries, and slap all the materialist notions of assimilation on them you want new people (race) means new ideas (culture) they are nearly unseperable.

[Paul Ross]

There is a lot of merit to your classification scheme. And I would add further that the linchpin-category of democRAT professionals can now be lumped in with those ranks, thanks to the complete Marxist take-over and destruction of higher education in this country. It takes extraordinarily well-educated (at home) and intelligent kids to survive as believing and practicing conservatives and Christians against the barrage of propaganda that washes over them from cradle to grave in the schools. I ran into an old friend at Boeing last month who was still wedded to the idea that we need all those foreigners in Boeing because "the old washed-up 40 year old white American males" don't have any good engineering ideas. H'mmm.

[Paul Ross]

Ditto.

[RLK]

I think the next election will be extremely close. Bush is very very popular, but I believe that a lot of people that like the job he is doing on the war would never consider voting for him when the Democrats come knocking.

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This is a repetition of his father's brief reign. His popularity briefly went to the top when he bombed the ragheads. When the war was over, people were no longer diverted and turned their attention to the other vast array of realities that had gone to hell. We can't continue warts forever to keep the Bushs in the White House.

What I'm concerned about is the other issues and conditions that will continue long after the ragheads are bombed and subdued for a brief period.

[WRhine]

Tragically, the gimmies are on the march, and the party of the gimmies has rigged the demographics to ensure their future dominance.

And Jorge Bush is doing everything he can with his open borders agenda to help the Socialists in this march.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I don't know how to nominate your post #33 for post of the week (on a thread) but I would like to. Maybe jh2 can direct this over to Rjayne. I seem not to have her name right. Well done, well said, may you be right and Dick Morris and his Do-Do Bird Dems be wrong.

[RLK]

What I am concerned about over the long term is:

1) the exporting pf critical principle industries from this country.

2) what is for practical purposes a foreign invasion of this nation which end in an annexation of portions of the country while licensing the annexed area to force a welfare state upon the remainder of the country. And also the balkanization of America.

3) The licensing of the Clintons and others like them to commit illegal acts in the White House who know all they need to do is elect a weakling republican president who says, "I have no stake in it" to get off the hook. We need to restore some sense of seriousness and accountability.

We are not going to survive George Bush.

[HumanaeVitae]

Well, I'm new to posting--not lurking of course--so that would be a coup! Thanks for the kind words...

[RLK]

It takes extraordinarily well-educated (at home) and intelligent kids to survive as believing and practicing conservatives and Christians against the barrage of propaganda that washes over them from cradle to grave in the schools. I ran into an old friend at Boeing last month who was still wedded to the idea that we need all those foreigners in Boeing because "the old washed-up 40 year old white American males" don't have any good engineering ideas. H'mmm.

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It's the same type of mentality Jorge Bush acuired with his MBA. That's why I'm not impressed by it. He got it because he never fought the system being imposed on the American people.