Good advice for the Democrats


Time to rethink the priorities
Yes, I know FrontPageMag is about as right wing as you can get, if not quite to the fanatic point. But this was a good article.

The Democrats' foolishness is frustrating to me not just because I'm an ex-Democrat and hate to see the ruination of my old party. Rather, I understand that when the Democrats are weak, the Republicans get lazy. It is no accident that since 9/11, the GOP has spent in such a manner as to give drunken sailors a bad name. Why? As long as the Democrats look so weak on national security, they can't possibly hope to regain power, and so there is no accountability for spendthrift Republicans.

The Democrats need to get their act together and stop pandering to the MoveOn.org crowd, or they're going to go the way of the Whigs -- and maybe a lot sooner than anyone imagines. If the GOP can hold Congress through the 2010 elections and continue to gain in state legislatures, the next reapportionment is going to be a tsunami that will cost the Democrats another dozen seats in the House. California is the only "blue" state that will gain any electoral votes in the foreseeable future. And so if Republicans keep the White House in 2008, the Democrats won't have any political bargaining chips left. 

I do agree wholeheartedly with those two paragraphs. The Republicans are getting lazy, and it is largely because the Democrat leadership let it happen. The Democrat mainstream is not with MoveOn.org, it's with Senator Joe Lieberman. The sooner the Democrat leadership realizes that, the less it will be hurt in the coming shakeup.

The current leadership isn't hungry enough, it's recycling arguments and challenges from 30 years ago. This is not the everyman's party of Harry Truman, and it is showing. Unless I have missed something in the last five years, the Democrat leadership's sole motivation has been to get George W. Bush.

That certainly wasn't true of Republicans during the Clinton Administration.

Because the current Democrat leadership hasn't been able to successfully confront the Republicans, the Republicans have lost their own principles.

Competition encourages honesty.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - December 21, 2005 at 05:14 AM  Tag


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