Posted on 11/11/2002 6:07:25 PM PST by Utah Girl
Pundits who suggest that this enormous victory could be bad for the Republicans because now they'll have no one else to blame-oh, please!
I am pleased and proud to live in the people's republic of the Upper West Side, a Manhattan neighborhood so historically liberal that one day I arrived at the supermarket to find a fierce young woman handing out leaflets on the horrific treatment of factory-farmed chickens. Luckily, I myself was looking for a nice piece of brisket.
THIS ABERRANT SLICE of America was predictably unhappy the morning after the big election. But along with the anger there was shame. Heard on the street-and in the gourmet store for which a friend says the motto ought to be "Why pay less?"-was an unthinkable whisper. Some of our neighbors had gone Republican for the first time in their lives.
...The Republican Party's historical hostility to the rights of women and the welfare of immigrants, its favoritism toward big business and big contributors, Richard Nixon's unwavering willingness to trade integrity for victory and Ronald Reagan's cheerful indifference to the disenfranchised: all conspire to leave liberals nowhere to go.
With this election result, they (the Republicans) will try to give estate-tax relief to the wealthy, to despoil the Alaskan wilderness by drilling for oil and to load the federal bench with judges who approve of the death penalty and are hostile to abortion.
...Lest we forget, the alleged left-wing positions of years past are now the bedrock of democracy: the franchise for black Americans, the equality of women.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
They (the American voter) can also smell it when someone really believes, as opposed to that faux belief described as positioning. That's why the late, great Paul Wellstone, a guy who any reasonable person would have said was too liberal and too unpolitic to be a politician, got elected twice. Was it the ill-advised pep rally masquerading as a memorial service that did in Wellstone's surrogate, or was it that the unaccustomed whiff of principle had disappeared with the ebullient firebrand who dared oppose the president's bully war?
But what constitutes left when viewed from the right—or when viewed by political consultants—isn’t really left at all. Wanting to register and license guns, or eschewing a quick-fix tax cut to avoid ever-increasing deficits: those aren’t radical notions.
That she has managed to grow up believing that registering guns isn't a radical notion, or that raising taxes will reduce deficits, is clear evidence of what is wrong with the Democratic Party.
The equality of women?
You mean the right of women to be raped by the President of the United States---while the "feminists" gather together to call the rape victim a "slut"?
I can sum it all up in 4 words. "I am wealthy, Dad". My Dad was on the DNC. His brother was a top executive with the AFL. Another of Dad's brothers was a factory worker and his sisters were just a housewlfes of hourly labor families.
I have 14 cousins our parents were Democrats. Most of us are Repubicans. When I became a Republican my dad asked me how I could be a Republian... "They are for the wealthy", he said. I replied, "I am wealthy, Dad." So are most of my cousins.
Well, Anna, we all can't rape women or leave them to drown in a car in the river.
its favoritism toward big business and big contributors
Such as communist China?
Richard Nixon's unwavering willingness to trade integrity for victory
Two words, Anna: THE CLINTONS
and Ronald Reagan's cheerful indifference to the disenfranchised:
I guess a fetus can't be disenfranchised, can it, Anna?
all conspire to leave liberals nowhere to go.
I know where you can all go, Anna.
Did you know that the Democrat Machine tried to say he was NOT a MAss citizen and could not run for Governor?
They're pathetic.
Vanity: Spontaneous Freep of Leftists in the People's Republic of the Upper West Side draws crowd!
You know, I am starting to have a real problem with "the disenfranchised" it seems to mean whatever they want it to mean.
a.cricket
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