Michael Barone at Real Clear Politics has written a very inciteful post titled “Democrats Are Winning…Except at the Pollsâ€.
It’s a great read that takes a look at what’s really wrong with today’s Democrat party, and why most American’s aren’t supporting them where it counts most: at the ballot box (which hasn’t stopped Dems from lauding even election losses as “moral” victories).
Nevertheless the Stark-McDermott-Kucinich reaction, echoed and amplified, often scatologically, by dozens of commenters on the popular dailykos.com and myDD.com left-wing Websites, tells us something disturbing about the Democratic Party — and provides a clue why Democrats were unable to eke out a win in last week’s special congressional election in the 50th congressional district of California.
It comes down to this: A substantial part of the Democratic Party, some of its politicians and many of its loudest supporters do not want America to succeed in Iraq. So vitriolic and all-consuming is their hatred for George W. Bush that they skip right over the worthy goals we have been, with some considerable success, seeking there — a democratic government, with guaranteed liberties for all, a vibrant free economy, respect for women — and call this a war for oil, or for Halliburton.
Successes are discounted, setbacks are trumpeted, the level of American casualties is treated as if it were comparable to those in Vietnam or World War II. Allegations of American misdeeds are repeated over and over; the work of reconstruction and aid of American military personnel and civilians is ignored.
In all this they have been aided and abetted by large elements of the press. The struggle in Iraq has been portrayed as a story of endless and increasing violence. Stories of success and heroism tend to go unreported. Reporters in Iraq deserve respect for their courage — this has been an unusually deadly war for journalists, largely because they have been targeted by the terrorists. But unfortunately they and the Bush administration have not done a good job of letting us know that last pertinent fact.
I’m not particulary fond of the Republican party these days either—what with their lack of courage to do anything meaningful about illegal immigration, their inability to stop spending our money like it was going out of style, and their kiddie-glove treatment of traitors and treasonous US citizens (to include a few senators).
But I’m pretty much a one-issue voter these days: National defense against Islamofascist terrorism. It’s the one issue on which I don’t trust a single Democrat. It’s the one issue that the Republican party has shown the backbone to stand up to and try to win — despite being hamstrung by the Democrats and sabotaged by our own media.
My biggest opposition to the Democrat party is that they want to appease and capitulate to our Islamofascist terrorists enemies. They want to negotiate with them while trying not to piss them off. I want them eradicated from the face of this planet. By any means necessary.
I read somewhere on the web just yesterday that the republican party is likened to a strict father and the democrat party is likened to a permissive mother. The more I thought about that analogy, the more sense it made to me, although it is also likely one could have a permissive father and a strict mother, but the point is made nonetheless. Historically, fathers have been the warriors and the hunter/gatherers and mothers have been the caretakers. In the political sense, the republican party is most concerned with war issues and the democrat party with social issues. The problem with our contemporary parental politicians, however, is that they don’t support one another and their marital union reminds us more of the “War of the Roses”, and, they’re breaking the first rule of divorce and that is to keep their children happy despite their own failure to keep their union together.
I have yet to talk to a person I know (other than on blogs) who is happy with the party they have historically aligned themselves with. I can never remember that happening before. I believe the upcoming elections will show just how unhappy we all are. IMHO immigration is a slightly bigger issue than Iraq for most Americans and Bush/Senate Republicans/Democrats have made a grave mistake with their amnesty bill. We the people will vote out of office whoever supported amnesty, republican or democrat. Nearly everyone is tired of Iraq but very concerned with terrorism. However, the Republicans are still the most trusted party to deal with these issues. Health care remains a big concern for nearly everyone, yet neither party puts forth a workable plan and the republicans are the worst of all except for Governor Mitt Romney who actually is trying to serve his people.
Well, Robbie, your post got me to thinking and regurgitating at the mouth this morning with my own thoughts on republicans and democrats. In a nutshell, I no longer align myself with either party.
What about the Centrist movement that seems to be gaining steam?