Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Yeah, right

So, it seems that Republicans have taken a triangulated approach to ensure the death knell of the Democratic Party

1. Offer lame advise that we'd be fools to follow.
2. Ridicule Democrats to death...while extolling the "virtues" of their party.
3. Loudly proclaim the madate of Republican values while annoucing the death of the Democratic party and liberalization.

Here are some examples:

Joe Scarborough:
I learned a long time ago that when it came to the world of politics, whom the gods would destroy, they first curse with power.
Think Bill Clinton and the Democratic Congress of 1992.


Did I hear you right, Joe? Did you say gods? How un-Christian of you. GWB would be so disappointed.
...
Zell Miller is right. The Democratic Party is a national party no more.
But give Ed Gilliespie, Ken Mehlman or myself the keys of the DNC for four years and we could once again put Democrats in power in the House and Senate. That's because Republicans understand middle America-national Democrats don't.


Well if we put Republicans in charge, we would cease to Democrats, wouldn't we? And why do you work for MSNBC again and not in the Senate, Joe? Term limits, maybe? Or could it be that you were incapable of winning a second term? Just a guess. I'm gonna listen to you...yeah right.
...
Maybe if the Party of FDR listened more Peter Beinhardt or Bill Clinton, and less to Michael Moore and Moveon.org, they would once again find themselves chairing committees and planning Inaugural Balls.
But as it is now, they are out of luck, out of touch, and out of power.


Perhaps you should heed your own warning from the beginning of your statement and let the Democrats sort out their own problems for themselves.

Robert-I'm-gonna-let-everyone-else-but-me-take-the-fall-for-protecting-sources-on-a-story-that-I-wrote-and-they-didn't-Novak:
Howard Dean's Return
"The mere thought of picking the 2004 presidential candidate who campaigned furthest to the left and was soundly repudiated by Democratic voters suggests inability to cope with political reality."
...
"His Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" was so polite that it instantly was labeled the "unscream." Nevertheless, Dean as national chairman would identify Democrats as the party of the Left, more interested in purity than victory."

Really? Perhaps Dean is the candidate Republicans are most afraid will win the chairmanship because he actually has the ability reach into the grassroots to energize the base of the party and regroup? Nah! Couldn't be! Could it?

Before we go jumping the gun at every suggestion that the Republicans throw at us, I think we need to remember that they are hardly engaging in selfless, altruistic acts when they write articles (or blogs) such as this. It is really in their own best interest that the Democratic party remains the minority and is ineffective or ceases to exist. If that were to happen, the real losers would be the American people, who would be stuck with a one party system. Now, that is hardly what I call democratic.






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