Reply #19: Again...two paragraphs from your post..should be burned in our brains... [View All]

The Party heirarchy doesn't want to hear this. They want to keep doing things the way they've done it and lost before. No charismatic Clinton or down home folksy Carter is going to save their butts this time. They are relying on Bush bringing down Bush. We have to pray that "the strategy" works. Many here say it will. I've posted that it probably will, but in the end who will Kerry be beholden to? Not those of us who know what's wrong with the Party and what's wrong with the Bush/PNAC/Corporate philosophy. No, in the end...it's "business and compromise as usual." As you said "Q" "when you stand for nothing you become nothing."

My gripe which I and others have complained about on DU over and over and over....is in these two pragraphs. Every time someone said the Dems can't fight back because the Repugs run everything, I rememebered how the Repugs fought to get where they are. How could we accept there was "nothing" they could do? We had to think up conspiracy theories to explain their lack of spunk. So many of us thought it was the "Anthrax" that scared them off. They had been threatened by a GOP so powerful it was like the Hoover days. Maybe there's truth to that, maybe not. But, we lack for any logical excuse for the "spinelessness" so we grasp at straws for explanations.

Quote from you:
"When GOPers were in the minority they fought every step of the way to guarantee they had a voice in government. After the Clinton years there was just enough CONSERVATIVES in the party to allow Republicans the upper hand and compromise turned into concession.

- These concessions to the GOPers have drastically weakened the Democratic party. The opposition perceived this weakness after stealing an election and has used it to their advantage ever since. The Dem party has been steamrolled and made irrelevant in both houses of congress. They still haven't quite figured out that the opposition considers bipartisanship as a form of 'date rape'."