Comments on: A Brilliant Analysis By A Former Lieberman Hand

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:06:22 +0000

Erm, the Democratic party first wooed me by presenting a former Navy officer — on nuclear subs no less — a Southern peanut farmer and Christian to boot. Prior to that Dems = Jim Crow, JFK & LBJ notwithstanding. Why? I dunno, must be something about George Wallace and folks of that ilk.

Once elected, I was disabused of those warm, safe fuzzy notions, when Jimmah Cahtah reckoned he’d seek advice from Amah about the Rooskies and their Nookes.

That, and the emotional handwringing and dithering before sending in a sub-optimal force to rescue the hostages. Just think, the Ayatollah’s revolution could have been DOA and that punk cum new century leader would be either rotting in prison or executed. Instead, we get treated to daily rants against Israel and the specter of 20,30, 50, 70, 100 hidden sites for Iran’s nuclear program.

That, and giving away Panama and now China owns the gateway to the southern western hemisphere.

That, and being chased by a wabid wabbit.

That, and … oh well better stop before I blow a gasket

Ciao

By: Heloise

Heloise — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:17:20 +0000

I didn’t leave the democratic party. It left me.
For all reasons given by the others that commented.

By: syn

syn — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:43:57 +0000

For me, at the age of 44 and having lived the ‘liberal’ lifestyle, I awoke one day to recognize just how politically manipulative and dishonest was modern liberalism. My generation thought it could never grow old, could party like there was no tomorrow, could steal from Peter to pay for Paul’s pleasures, could portray modern day Medea playing vengence against The Man, could rewrite or ignore historical perspective and so forth without ever having to pay any price for what we considered to be a lifelong teenager’s entitlement that life was nothing more than the pursuit of narcissistic self-indulgent pleasures.

We partied for three decades but the party is just about to end and we are going to experience one hell of a hangover.

Self-reflection is wise advise I am hoping the Democrat Party will embrace.

By: brassband

brassband — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:01:12 +0000

As a former Democrat (or, as I like to put it, a “Democrat in Recovery”) who abandoned the party because of its absurd extremism on abortion and other issues, I heartily agree with this analysis.

The Democrat party will not get a serious look from me again until it acknowledges that you can be pro-life without being a neanderthal racist.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:20:56 +0000

Interestingly, Frank Rich makes a similar point in his column today — he excoriates Ted Kennedy for his shameful remarks about Alito, and points to them as evidence why the Democrats are as flaccid as they are –

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