Dummocrats.com - The GOP's Demographic Drop Of Doom In 2006

# November 27th, 2006 3:29 PM REV

- PHTbltttht! "New York Slimes"!!! They are as accurate and PRO-American as "Al Jazerah"!!!

# November 28th, 2006 9:40 PM REV

When a candidate with backbone and guts steps up and proudly embraces Conservatism and boldly proclaims Conservatism that candidate WILL WIN.

# December 5th, 2006 9:45 AM mbrlr

In regards to Rev's 1st post: That's nonsense. And how exactly does one pronounce "PHTbltttht"?

In regards to Rev's 2nd post: No. I think we're at one of those cultural and political shifts.

# December 5th, 2006 4:39 PM mbrlr

Regarding point 1: Maybe John Adams would have done it, but the Alien and Sedition Acts are generally viewed as blots on his record, and a free press with precisely the ability to keep tabs on government is what was intended. Read the Federalist Papers.

Regarding point 2: Reagan won as a conservative, but actually governed as a moderate, as hard as that is for me to say. Certainly when it came to foreign affairs, he did precisely what all Presidents since Truman had done concerning the Soviets. It took 40 years, but the Soviets finally folded both from our persistence on both sides of the aisle and all the internal problems. Nixon was probably quite conservative, but he governed as an interventionist, from detente to internal policy. He wasn't a Goldwater...who lost really, really big...conservative. The conservative movement didn't pick up until Johnson managed to get the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed. My fellow white Southerners acted like jackasses, ironically, and moved over to the carpetbagger party in droves. Hello, Nixon. Hello, Reagan. With their ability to appoint justices to the Supreme Court, we have hello, George W.

3. Okay. My 3 year old is giving me a bronx cheer and I didn't even know it. I'll try to think of an upper South equivalent.

Bonus: "Liberalis=Big-Government=Socialism=Leftism=Communism=Slavery=Tax-HIKES=OPPRESSIVE Regulations=EVIL=Liberalism." Wow. I would suggest that it should be:

Liberals =
1) Necessary and constitutional roles for government requiring responsible growth
2) Nothing near socialism if you've ever read anything about it or been to Scandinavia
3) Left rather than right and that's very good
4) Nothing near communism, for heaven's sake
5) We fought a war over that and then reneged on the promises made for another 100 years and are still dealing with that particular sin and its aftermath
6) Taxes that government uses for quite necessary and constitutional purposes and functions. Deal with the fact that it takes money to run the government
7) Necessary regulations because industry won't police itself and history bears that out
8) I'd say good and you say evil and that's a perfect illustration of a democratic society, so long as we keep it civil
9. Yep, liberalism

Out of curiousity, what is your take on the Civil Rights Act, Brown v Board of Education, and our history of segregation and prejudice?