Justin said:
“They must have all evaporated somehow, because when I look and turn on my television politicalreacharound and his ilk seem to be all that is left of the Democratic party.”
I get the feeling that many Democrats believe their failure in 2004 was because they did not go left enough. How else to explain the choice of Obama over Clinton, or any other more centrist Dem.
Like I’ve said before, I believe the Dems failures in the recently past Presidential races have been because they have allowed themselves to be hijacked by radical lefties and their elitist supporters.* These people are indeed repellent to any American who is not a rabid America-hating ideologue. Just as repellent as racists and haters on the extreme right, who we don’t hear as much from, since the Repubs appear to be wise enough to distance themselves from those people. More sensible than the Dems, who openly embrace and court their loonies, seemingly because they aren’t even aware how loony they are. Then the Dem enabling media foolishly gives the radicals every opportunity to expose their silliness in the media, with little or no rebuke.
As for Obama’s chances, as Huxley said it is too early to make a prediction. My gut says he will lose, (as it said of Kerry in 2004) for the reasons I stated above. But I won’t put money on it. The traditional attitudes and mores of this country may have changed more than I am aware. And the so-called negatives of the Republican brand (which will be defined in greater detail by the Dem enablers of the media in the coming months) may outweigh the negatives of the Democratic “elect the party made up of people that are better than you, you racist, sexist hick” brand.
*In light of the topic of this article, I consider if it is possible that the Dem party has always been this way, and it is I who have become more conservative as I’ve matured. Could be. I leave that to the political historians. The above is just my view as a middle-aged, college educated, blue-state born and residing, registered independent, non-ideologue.
