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there will be no honeymoon.
There is no candidate – not even our beloved Al Gore -- who can bring an end to the partisanship we have now in Washington, not without turning his or her back on everything the Democratic party has stood for.
Our next Democratic President will be vilified by a substantial segment of the population, just as FDR was. Almost from the day of our new President’s Inauguration, the Republicans’ deadly drumbeat will begin, just as it did from the first days of Bill Clinton’s first administration, just as it did through Jimmy Carter’s administration. In the view of the Bush/Rove/Reagan Republicans, any Democratic President will be viewed as just another unworthy usurper.
How have we come to this sad state of affairs? It’s because the Republican party can no longer survive on its ideas (unless you call “cut taxes” or “be afraid” an idea). Philosophically, intellectually, morally, it has nothing to offer.
The only people the party can appeal to are the self-interested rich and the ignorant middle class. Since the numbers of those people are small – and dwindling – the party works to instill hate. The Republicans can’t beat Hillary or Barack or Chris or John or Dennis or Bill or Joe or Mike in a contest of ideas – but they’re world-class experts in pounding the drums of ridicule, division, and hate.
We must be prepared. And we have to stand together, all of us. We can’t let their hatred make us doubt each other’s good will or shake our resolve.
Barack, Bill, Chris, Dennis, Hillary, Joe, John and Mike: THANK YOU ALL for standing up for us.
Keep up the good fight.
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