[polemikos]

My favorite line:

"Actually its worse than that."

[gcruse]

" Increasingly a sizeable percentage of the voting
public rejects the Democratic party out of hand. "

[Cicero]

Married women favored the Republicans by 10 points on election day.

I don't think I've seen this figure before, although I've seen it said that married people with families tend to vote Republican.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Planned Easy Democrat Solution =

...HILLARY RODHAM running for President in 2004...

...with another woman as her running mate...

...with the slogan to the 50% of the voters of this country that are women that...

.."It's now OUR Turn, Baby"..!

...Unfortunately, HILLARY RODHAM =

...HO CHI MINH...

still.

[Nick Danger]

White men nationally gave the GOP a 20-point margin and the trend looks likely to increase rather than contract.

What else could Democrats reasonably expect? It is a core principle of the Democratic Party that white men are not welcome in the United States anymore. This position fairly oozes out of everything they say and do, except when they need somebody in a hurry who can get something done.

Bashing men, and especially white men, is a highly popular position in some quarters, but the Democrats can't expect it not to cost a few votes here and there. It's the flip side of all that money they get from EMILY's List.

Married women favored the Republicans by 10 points on election day.

They've figured out that the Democratic Party wants their sons to feel unwelcome in the United States... to go away, or become unemployed, or die... before they've even had a chance to get out of school.

[T Ruth]

The author does not mention that the Democrats are corrupt to the marrow. Actually, few political analysts mention that fact, but I think it is a big part of the reason Democrats are losing support.

[patriciaruth]

I've been wondering the last couple of years if the Libertarians are going to
replace the Democrats as the second major party.

Thesis and antithesis clash which leads to a revolution/consensus/resolution that
ends that phase of history, then opens the way to a new thesis.
That was Karl Marx, and the Dems devotion to Marx, anti-American Way,
pro-communist took a body blow when the USSR bit the dust.

Now they are socialist, and the World Workers Party and Socialist Workers
Party form the central cadre of their activism, whether they know it or not.

Basically, Americans have rejected godless communism, no matter how much the
media and Hollywood tried to ram it down our throats. And they still believe in
America and the American Way. So the left increasingly becomes old and
rejected. The Greens are grabbing the environment from them but still are
anti-American and Nader is communist in his beliefs (no one should be allowed
to make more than $100,000 a year), so they can't make it.

Libertarians offer the real choice that embraces godless liberal positions on social
issues, but is not anti-American; it is pro American economy and pro American
security.

Is the world heading for the clash of those who believe in religion based morality
versus those who think personal freedom means anything goes as long as it
"doesn't hurt anyone?" And is George W. Bush actually leading those who
believe in one religion based morality against those who believe in a different
religion across the world, while at home ironically he is leading a fight against
those that don't believe in religion.

[John Jorsett]

The truth is that unless the party can convince the public to change its view on these issues, the decline of the party will continue.

Now there's the telling line. Translation: we're not wrong about this stuff, the public is, and it's our job to turn them around. I really hope they try this tack, since it's a recipe for losing.

[Intolerant in NJ]

While these and similar issues are a large cause of the public's alienation with the Democratic party, reversing course may not be the best option. Critics of the DLC and other "centrists" within the party rightly charge that if given the choice between the GOP and the GOP, voters will elect the GOP every time...Another problem for the 'rats, though, is that even their "centrist" initiatives such as the DLC are beginning to look like Trojan Horses to the voters - the avowed purpose for establishing the DLC was "to win back the White House", not to the bring the party and its philosophy back more in line with mainstream thinking - the public is seeing what those who helped initiate the DLC really believe when they see Clinton raise taxes and fight bans on even partial birth abortion, and Algore speak out for socialized (excuse me, "single party payer") medicine and against our efforts in Iraq. With blatant leftists such as Pelosi now being elevated to leadership in the party, even if the 'rats are successful in crafting a more centrist message in future elections, it's not clear that the public will still trust them enough to rule according to that message to continue to give them its votes - it may be too late for "reversing course".....

[AlaskaErik]

And who do they pick in the House to get them back on track? Nancy Pelosi! That makes about as much sense as playing Russian Roulette with a semi-auto pistol.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Married women favored the Republicans by 10 points on election day." (UPI)

ALL nonminority women - outside the northeast, urban Midwest, and Kalifornia - do.

For Bush to have won heavily-black Southern states like 1/3-black South Carolina by 16 points (and numerous others), there's no mathematical way any substantial share of nonminority women could have voted Democratic.

[sweetliberty]

"find more enthusiastic and photogenic messengers"

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

[edwin hubble]

Congratulations on a Great Post!!

This is clear, strong, and well-written.

"(Horace Cooper is a senior fellow with the Centre for New Black Leadership.)"

I am going to be on the lookout for this writer.
Thanks

[garbanzo]

Issues such as their attacks on the Boy Scouts, support for needle exchange in the inner city, and a reflexive hostility to U.S. military action are part and parcel of the modern Democratic party.

This reminds me of a great SNL skit from the '88 Presidential campaign - "Dukakis After Dark".

The premise of the skit is that late in the campaign Dukakis decides rather than spending his remaining funds on a useless campaign commercial, he'd rather hold a Hef-style party and invite all his liberal friends. One telling exchange goes as follows -

Lloyd Bensen - "I don't get it, why don't people like us?"

Dukakis - "Well Lloyd, we represent unpopular and discredited views".

The funniest part was Joan Baez's song which sums up everything you need to know about modern liberalism...

Unilateral disarmament,
Abortion on demand,
We'll take your guns away
And bury them in the sand
Free needles for the addicts
And condoms for the kids,
We won't hold criminals responsible for anything they did
who's to say what's right and wrong or anything's a sin
All that really matter is the wars we lose or win...

At this point he cuts her off - but the ending is the kicker
He says - " That just about does it for the campaign. You know, I think the one thing that really hurt us is the fact that Reaganomics works. It really does. I mean, aren't you better off than you were eight years ago? I know I am. "

A (somewhat inaccurate) transcript is here

[SWake]

I personally think that the real lesson to be learned from this swing by so many people from Democrat to Republican over the past 30 years is that it could happen again. And if the Republicans don't decide who they are and how they got where they are, those of us who were raised in Democrat households but swapped over to Republican when the Republicans became conservative are perfectly willing to swap again to whomever will take up the conservative banner. Unless and until the Republicans grow a spine and start actually standing up for the conservative people who put them in office, I will continue to consider myself an independant who votes Republican ... for now.

[Claire Voyant]

If all you think about is killing babies...Vote Democrat.

If all you think about is your Gayness....Vote Democrat.

If you hate anything religious, especially Christian...Vote Democrat.

[Darling Lili]

While these and similar issues are a large cause of the public's alienation with the Democratic party, reversing course may not be the best option. Critics of the DLC and other "centrists" within the party rightly charge that if given the choice between the GOP and the GOP, voters will elect the GOP every time.

Gotta love this guy, this piece is spot on!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Got to bookmark this!

[Paul Atreides]

Ha! And, their solution is to be even more liberal.