Democrats: Do you still like your chances?

[SINthysist]

Do you see erosion in Jewish support? Why I ask is Republicans have taken a very strong stand and President Bush has said Arafat must go.

Do you see erosion in the African American vote? I ask because many were strongly in favor of school vouchers to escape the public school system.

Will working harder to cover your base, cost you the little bit of the fickle center that was swayed by the late DUI report and the popular vote in 2000?

If you hammer big business, the failures in intelligence, the Commerce Department selling arms, and try to pin it on Republicans, will people be smart enough to realize that these problems did not occur overnight?

The again, you could always blame Richard Nixon…

 

[WriterDom]

Historically, the opposition party gains seats in midterm elections. But I think the current democrat leadership has lost their moral compass. They are a rudderless ship floating on the same old tired ideas in a sea still heavy with the stench of Bill Clinton.

 

[SINthysist]

Spoken like a true Democrat... sort of...

Truisms are just that. Truisms. There's always the exception, but I want to hear from a Democrat.

 

[Shaq]

*in voice of Nastradamus*

"Stock market mayhem and corporate corruption shines the light to the road of republican destruction"


Amen...

 

[SINthysist]

So when we go after big business, will you be comfortable admitting that Terry McAulife pulled a Martha Sewart with Global Crossing? Doesn't that seem like a sword that cuts both ways, across party lines. As I said before, people will be forced to see the problem goes way back.

Unless you are implying you believe it is the people are too stupid option?

 

[teddybear4play]

A little hypocrisy won't stop them . . .

TB4p

 

[Wrong Element]

I don't expect there will be much change in the makeup of Congress, though it will take only a small shift to switch party control in both houses.

I don't see any big national trends, and the major national issue, the war on terrorism, is one on which there aren't going to be many significant differences. The country is closely divided and the election should reflect that, though redistricting has helped the Republicans slightly.

 

[miles]

I saw an interesting report on the phony baloney Campaign Finance Reform, on that extreme right wing gun totin CBS News. Liberals and Conservatives alike are screaming bloody murder about McCaullife, who has to go down as one of the lowest forms of human life to dare show his face in politics. He was one of the most vocal supporters of CFR, and now that it's law he has fiund all kinds of ways to circumvent it.

What a pig.

 

[SINthysist]

Wow. Did they all convert...

 

[WriterDom]

Al Gore likes his chances. But this time, he's going to let it rip.


By WOODY BAIRD
.c The Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and ``let it rip.''

What a dork.

 

[Texan]

Al Gore likes his chances. But this time, he's going to let it rip.


By WOODY BAIRD
.c The Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and ``let it rip.''

What a dork.

What heart???

 

[Ishmael]

What heart???

What character?

Al's well into his 40's now and he's redone himself 4 times so far in the past three years. More manly ya know.

In my world, if you don't know who you are by that age you have absolutely no business trying to lead anyone because you aren't even in control of your self. Al will have a much better chance after he decides what he wants to be when he grows up. If he ever does.

Ishmael

 

[RhumbRunner13]

That's pretty good.

*in voice of Nastradamus*

"Stock market mayhem and corporate corruption shines the light to the road of republican destruction"


Amen...

Xerox announced that the $6.8 billion in funds misreported over the last five years ..........

Sorry, it won't be laid at the door of just the Republicans!

Rhumb

 

[teddybear4play]

Al Gore likes his chances. But this time, he's going to let it rip.


By WOODY BAIRD
.c The Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and ``let it rip.''

What a dork.

Great. Just what we need. More making out with Tipper and more Rolling Stone covers where he looks like he stuffed a roll of toilet paper down his pants.

TB4p

 

[SINthysist]

Great to hear from Texan. Ishmael should get to know him.

Democrats you don't have to keep waiting for the name calling...

You can jump right in at any time!

 

[maringa]

Historically, the opposition party gains seats in midterm elections. But I think the current democrat leadership has lost their moral compass. They are a rudderless ship floating on the same old tired ideas in a sea still heavy with the stench of Bill Clinton.

Those last five words are making me wanna squirm

 

[bestfriend]

There is something about Tipper that I so want to shag !

 

[markb325]

Great just what we need Al Gore screwing the country like he screwed the State he was suppose to be representing.

<Former Tennessean>

 

[SINthysist]

At least you got out alive...

Where are the Democrats?

Are they fictional?

 

[SINthysist]

It gets even better

God and Country: The Pledge Noise
Geoff Metcalf
Monday, July 1, 2002

Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country, and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: "Under God."
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer, and that would be eliminated from schools, too?"


– Red Skelton,
Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

Three judges voted 2-1 and the decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Pledge of Allegiance has sparked a firestorm of rhetoric and a hasty judicial do-over.

A great deal has been written already by columnists, pundits and tap-dancing politicians of all political persuasions, and I tried to resist the temptation to write about it. I failed.

This issue is, according to political insiders, "radioactive."

Democrats want it to just go away … FAST. Republicans see it as a political target of opportunity to be exploited. The longer this scab can be picked at, the more tender and raw the fester will become, and the better politically for Republicans.

The 9th Circuit is the most radical (and most often overturned) court in the country. That is a fact recognized by both political parties. It is dominated by Clinton appointees. I have had lawyers tell me they consider being ruled against by the 9th Circuit a benefit, since statistically it improves their chances to win on appeal.

Dr. Michael Newdow, a Sacramento, Calif., physician with a law degree who represented himself, said he brought the lawsuit that led to the ruling "because I am an atheist and this offends me." Guess what? This ruling apparently offends the majority of the country.

It is fascinating that the very constitutional principles which allow Newdow to embrace and articulate an offensive minority view is the tool he uses to offend the majority.

Tom Daschle (proving that even a broken clock is right twice a day) called the ruling "nuts." Harvard law professor (and one-time possible Supreme Court prospect) Laurence Tribe predicted that the Supreme Court would reverse the decision unless the 9th Circuit reverses itself. "I would bet an awful lot on that," he said.

Believe me, the last thing the Democrats want (especially in an important congressional election year) is to have the Supreme Court slap liberal groupthink.

The 9th U.S. Circuit brain flatulence ruled that Congress violated the Constitution's "establishment clause" by adding the words "under God" to the simple 29-word declaration in 1954.

The establishment clause, a part of the First Amendment, bars the government from setting up an official religion or taking steps in that direction.

However, the KEY point the liberal left seems content in ignoring is that the intent was (and is) to prevent the establishment of a government religion. The intent was and is to prevent the government from controlling religion … NOT to prevent religion from influencing government. No doubt Newdow would want all currency recalled and "In God We Trust" deleted.

I was recently asked if Judge Alfred Goodwin of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was "pressured" to amend his original decision. [Pregnant pause … sly half grin … deep sigh …] Well, no … not really … kinda/sorta … what exactly do you mean by "pressured"?

No judge (and no political supporter of any judge) is foolish enough to acknowledge influencing (or being influenced in) a decision. However, circuit court appointments are very hard to get. It takes a LOT of politics and years of lobbying effort. These judges don't get a call one day: "Hey, there is going to be an opening on the 9th Circuit. Are you interested?" Not EVEN! Circuit Court judges work hard positioning themselves for an appointment, and the political coinage is significant.

The conventional wisdom from political insiders is that Goodwin's phone was (in all probability) ringing off the hook from one-time political backers who must have been really annoyed, torqued and p.o.-ed over his ruling and no doubt let him know.

This decision is the personification of the Metcalf bromide "there are consequences to the things you do and don't do. …"

The Democrats want this to go away … the sooner the better. The GOP wants the issue to linger … the longer the better.

And there are the inevitable unintended consequences.

The issue helps President Bush because it keeps Daschle et al. off his back.

The Dems are forced into a defensive posture, scrambling for plausible deniability.

At a time when everyone is anticipating the next terrorist attack on America, it is political suicide to articulate any message (whether it be reasoned, scholarly or visceral) that can be perceived as "unpatriotic."

One consultant even expressed the concern that if this issue doesn't go away it could potentially impact on the November Senate races.

Before the stay was announced, Americans across the country sounded off on talk radio, in coffee shops, bars, classrooms and military bases. The consensus opinion seems to be that the ruling is "ridiculous" and "just nuts."

 

[SINthysist]

Still got nothin'?