Damn Dirty Democrats

The Weekly Standard ^ | 11/04/2002 | Jonathan V. Last

[Pokey78]

Once the party of hope and idealism, the Democrats are now the party of dirty tricks.

A DEFINING MOMENT isn't about reality, it's about unconscious public perception. For example: Dan Quayle will forever be remembered for his "misspelling" of the word potato, not because it was an important event, but because the public already suspected he might be a dummy. John Ashcroft will forever be a religious nut because the curtain over the boob symbolized what people suspected--that he was a little too devout for centrist America. Never mind that Quayle is both bright and capable or that Ashcroft isn't a Wahhabi nutcase (or that he never asked for the curtain). Those caricatures are now cut into stone.

And so it may be for the Democratic party today. For two generations Democrats have coasted on the caricatures established by FDR and JFK. The Democrat from Central Casting was a slightly corrupt, slightly dopey do-gooder with stars in his eyes and gold in his heart. But a new Democratic caricature emerged this fall: One of the power-obsessed politician who will do anything to win.

Just consider the face of the Democratic party over the last few months:

-In South Dakota this fall, Democrats have pushed heavy voter-registration drives with Indians. So heavy, in fact, that lots of dead Native Americans signed up. State and federal authorities are investigating.

-In a September memo from the Detroit mayor's office, it was revealed that Detroit has 600,000 registered voters, only about 450,000 of which are legitimate. And you can bet those phantom voters haven't been trending Republican.

-In New Jersey, Democrats stood behind embattled senator Robert Torricelli, despite the fact that he was under federal investigation. Until he fell behind GOP challenger Doug Forrester in the polls. On the last day of September, Dems pushed Torricelli aside and brought in replacement candidate Frank Lautenberg, even though the law clearly stated that it was too late for a substitution. Democrats broke the law because, they insisted, New Jersey's citizens were entitled to a choice between major-party candidates. (In a related story, Democrats declined to field a candidate against Republican Virginia senator John Warner since Warner looked so formidable in early polling.)

-At a September debate in Maryland between the candidates for lieutenant governor, supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend passed out Oreo cookies to mock black Republican hopeful Michael Steele. At another debate that month, between Townsend and Republican Bob Ehrlich, Democrats also passed out Oreos--and then led the crowd in raucous booing of Ehrlich's wife and elderly parents. Afterwards, Democrats keyed the cars of several Ehrlich supporters.

-During October in Montana, Democratic senator Max Baucus ran an ad not-so-subtly insinuating that his opponent, Mike Taylor, was gay--closing the attack spot by saying darkly, "Mike Taylor. Not the way we do business in Montana."

-In an October debate in South Carolina, Democrat Senate candidate Alex Sanders attacked Lindsay Graham for having Rudy Giuliani stump for him. About Giuliani, Sanders said, "His wife kicked him out and he moved in with two gay men and a Shih Tzu. Is that South Carolina values? I don't think so."

-A few days ago in Hawaii, GOP gubernatorial candidate Linda Lingle, who's running neck-and-neck with her Democratic opponent, became the target of a whispering campaign claiming that she, too, is homosexual.

-In Iowa, Tom Harkin spent autumn in Tape-gate. As the Washington Post explained, "Harkin's campaign provided a digital recorder to a former Harkin aide to take to a Sept. 3 strategy session of the Ganske campaign, to which the former aide had been invited. The campaign then leaked a copy of the recording to an Iowa reporter. Harkin's campaign staff first denied any involvement, then admitted to it. Harkin dumped his campaign manager and fired a young, low-level aide, whom the campaign said was solely responsible for getting the former Harkin aide, Brian Conley, to record the session."

-And then, of course, there was the Wellstone affair last week (see the above now-famous photo). At the memorial service Democrats whipped the crowd into a partisan fervor, chanted "We Will Win," and generally had a rollicking good time while the 20,000 attendees booed Wellstone's Republican colleagues who had come to pay their respects.

The Democrats haven't just become Nixon, they've become the exaggerated liberal nightmare version of Nixon: Today Democrats are what they believe Nixon was.

The change didn't happen overnight. For a couple years now--since 1992ish, to be more exact--Democrats have been showing signs of a desperate, win-at-any-cost mentality. It started with Clinton's women and then his fund-raising and impeachment. It carried over to Gore's challenge to the 2000 election and Tom Daschle's unprecedented obstruction of George W. Bush's judicial nominees.

(As a side note, last Friday on Blanquita Cullum and Janet Donovan's radio show, "The Beltway Broads," I asked Orrin Hatch if there was any weight to the charge that Republicans had been just as bad with Clinton's nominees. The straight-laced Mormon said those arguments are "pure B.S." Also, he interestingly noted that "we may get one or two [Supreme Court] nominees before the end of the year.")

None of this has been lost on the public. And the angry chants and rabid cheering from the Wellstone "memorial" may have provided the Democrats with a new defining moment. Once the party of JFK and FDR, the Democrats are now the party of dirty tricks.

[GOPJ]

Powerful and true, worse than Nixon. They are crooks.:

Once the party of JFK and FDR, the Democrats are now the party of dirty tricks.

[oyez]

You're not alone. If someone tell me, Well, I'm a Democrat." They might as well say "I torture puppies and kittens for fun".

[TheGrimReaper]

OK, I'll say it again.....
The Democrat party is little more than a nationwide organized crime operation.

[Russell Scott]

The Democrats went from being idealistic and duped socialist to downright wicked, hell-bent, beasts of destruction. If this trend continues, only the heavy hand of divine judgement may bring them to their senses, instead of wallowing in the pig sty like the prodigal's son. I'll give them a tip on regaining their balance, cast off Hildabeast and her political slave/mouthpiece, Billy Beast. Better to end the political career of a few, then the destruction of the entire party.

And Democrats, don't say I never tried to help you, which is my duty as a Christian, to love my enemies. You spank yours kids when they misbehave, that's called love, not encouraging them to continue their rotten behavior. Thats what you forgot to do during impeachment. If you don't correct that mistake soon, by 2004 your party will turn into a long nightmare.

[freebilly]

"We're gonna win, and we're gonna win big...."

[F16Fighter]

This is NOT hyperbole:

With each and every passing day, this fact becomes clearer -- the American Democratic Party is THE enemy from within -- they not only hope eventually to usurp the power and authority of the U.S. Constitution when convenient, but feel they somehow have a legitimate "right" to re-write it and thus subvert it for their own socialist agendae...

It is they by far who are the greatest threat to the security and freedom of America -- is it not?

[Captainpaintball]

Never mind that Quayle is both bright and capable or that Ashcroft isn't a Wahhabi nutcase (or that he never asked for the curtain).

what didAshcroft do, then?

[LenS]

But that trick won't help in the end. If Mink wins on Tuesday, a special election will have to be held since no one can be appointed to a House seat. So the GOP will have time to analyze the results and see who the Dems pick to run for the seat. A Mink win won't help the Dems get the House. So on the scale of Dem tricks, this one won't do any real harm.

[dano1]

I agree. It's also interesting how the "New Democratic" strategy of moving to the middle has fractured the party and left it as basically a body without a head. Really these days the Democrats are more of a coalition than a party, and the coalition is very shakey. Clinton and his "New Democratics" have completely sold out Organized Labor, it seems to me. The "life style" liberals share none of the values with the traditional democrats. The minority vote is becoming ever less monolithic. Really I think a lot of blame goes back to the "New Democrat" group, who pretty much seem to have managed to take over the party without any real public debate and before most of the rank and file even knew they existed. It perhaps was a calculated and self-serving move by a small group of people who advanced their own careers at the party's expense.

[MHT]

In spite of being the party of "sensitive" people who "feel" the pain of others, the Democrat party is teeming with the most vicious, hateful, immoral people who ever lived in this country. In the post-Clinton, post-modern (whatever that means) age, they have been praised, not condemned, for their blatant mantra that the "end justifies the means" and successful (thanks mostly to judges who legislate from the bench) in their attempts to "win" at all costs (and "winning" for them is ALWAYS keeping them in a political majority). Winning is never about doing something for the "little guy" they always claim to be so concerned about. It's about keeping the likes of Dick Gephart in power so he can have a million-dollar beach house in North Carolina, etc.

The map of the 2000 election proved that there are two Americas out there, a blue and a red. And when the Gore/Bush support areas were colored in depth representing intensity of support, there were no pink or baby blues. Those colors were deep red and dark blue. This nation is split and intensely so. I do not know if there has been such a division in this country since the civil war, but I doubt it.

Besides being basically two nations at war, the war is full of hate. Booing someone takes us to the level of the European socceer hooligans. Scratching up someone's car is unbelievable. The other day, a man wouldn't let me in front of him to exit a highway. The rage was scary. I couldn't figure out why until I realized he probably was angry over my Republican bumper sticker. To think that someone could die because of another voter's anger and road rage over a bumper sticker.

There are two Americas out there and it is "us" versus "them". Never forget it. The first step is to get a Republican senate and get judges in there who will legislate on the law and not the way they think things out to be micro-managed. The second step is to get rid of liberal teachers who teach kids "what" to think rather than "how" to think. Finally, we must be ever-vigilant because the tactics they use to cheat and steal elections today will be nothing compared to what they will figure out next when these klutzy techniques fail. This will be a battle til the day we die.

[Optimist]

Voter fraud will trump all that.

In Minnesota, confusion/lawsuits over absentee ballots will keep results from being known for days if not weeks.

Meanwhile, in Missouri, a new "provisional voting" system will allow the dems to (a) enable the manipulation of results and/or (b) delay the certification of the election of Talent(currently the likely winner by 2-4 percent).

Alternate (b) will happen like this:
1. Democrats will bus and/or instruct UNREGISTERED VOTERS to various polling locations to vote, KNOWING they are NOT valid voters.
2. These "voters", with proper ID , will not be found on the voter list at the polls.
3. To assure that they are not "disenfranchised" they will be permitted to vote with a provisional ballot until their eligibility is verified or disproved.
4. With enough of these ballots statewide to be reviewed, even a Talent win will not be certified until all the questionable ballots are checked.
5. Since Talent takes office upon certification of his win, the senate changes hands when he "wins", which wont be true until this certification of provisional ballots is concluded.
6. Talent being seated, and Republican control can be delayed weeks if not months if enough DemoFraudulent votes are cast, even though they knowingly expect them to be thrown out.

Talent is the one great hope for W to get some of his judges and agenda out of DemocRat committees; even if the Republicans fail to regain control of the senate following the election, a win by Talent can give Republicans control for up to 2 months until the entire elected senate is resworn in January.

So, what can be done? TURNOUT! a large enough turnout of legitimate Republican voters to offset the provisional votes will make any review of the provisonal votes moot (much like counting absentee votes that can't affect the outcome of a race) - ie. why count a couple thousand questionable "votes" in a race that is separated by 10,000 votes, and even if authentic, those votes wont change the results.

In other words

GET OUT THE VOTE!

[Michael Barnes]

The longer our borders are treated as open doors, the more our soveigrnty is at risk. We, Americans, are being bred (sp?) out of existance. The Dem's know this. This country today is brining up a class of serfdom. Some have asked here "what are we gonna do about it?"..yada, yada, yada. Voting out the rats is great; I'm all for it. But alot of the ilk we are putting in is not much better.
There's only one way to take back our country, DEPORT those that do no belong here. Slice the candidates will to succumb to the so called "minority". erradicate the "PC" bullshit. The Republican party, The GOP, is spineless. They merely "react", they no longer act.

Now, with that said, I will venture forth and vote Republican Tuesday. Not 'cause I like it, but only because if anything, it might slow the fall of my nation. I hope to see a time when Republican seats far outweigh that of hte left. My next hope is, we can then elect those that will upseat the Republicans and retake this country. Put people in office that are willing to fight for US. Not some pissant illegal. People who are willing to base policy on logic, not on feelings. People who are ready to be Americns again. What I see in office now, they are a shame to our nation.

Flame away...

[Darlin']

Never, ever trust a democrat. Dead or alive.
The live oens are liars, cheaters and crooks
The dead ones were liars, cheaters and crooks
Either way, they still vote.

[MoralSense]

Ashcroft did nothing. A Justice Department media type decided to hang a blue curtain in the hall used for press statements, so as to make a better TV background. That curtain happened to shroud a statue of Justice with a naked bosom. The press started the rumor that Ashcroft had wanted to cover the statue.

Go search Jay Nordlinger and Kathryn Jean Lopez's columns on National Review online for the story.

[Optimist]

GET OUT THE VOTE PING VOTE NOVEMBER 5th

[ppaul]

[savedbygrace]

To read later

[The Great Satan]

I can't get enough of this pic. It's like the one of the Spanish euro-weenie sucking up to Arafat. It just says it all.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Damn Dirty Democrats

Now there's some poor usage of English - never use three words when one will suffice.

I wonder if he's paraphrasing the great Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes....."you damn dirty ape"