New DNC Chair?

[Ted Striker]

Yes, some people still believe that

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
I thought the whole bigoted thing was just an exaggeration tactic the Democrats and the Hollywood crowd always used just to make the Republicans look bad.

I had no idea it was actually reality.

No, Republicans used an anti-civil rights agenda to flip the whole south red for the first time in 100 years.

Bigots to the core and there is no denying it.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Ah yes, the President, who could count on the morons of the country to vote for him because they want to push the gays down and bring Jesus to the school house .

Of course. That's it. Kerry ran an absolutely flawless campaign.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Well, it seems like Clinton was more efficient at hiding his true beliefs, because from what I heard Clinton is quite liberal.

Nonsense! Clinton moved towards welfare reform in his first term just so he could pick up a few red states. This seriously pissed off the traditional liberal base but in the end the liberals voted for centrist Clinton over rightist Dole. Clinton worked hard to maintain the position of a centrist and that's why he got a land slide, including much of the south, in 1996.

[Imran Siddiqui]

DD: Hey, it worked in the smart (and rich) states .

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Bigots to the core and there is no denying it.

Show us more of that centrist spirit.

[Ted Striker]

Terrible

But from what I've seen I believe it

Rural states are more scared of gay people than Osama Bin Laden

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Of course. That's it. Kerry ran an absolutely flawless campaign.

Kerry ran a very bad campaign where he let Bush decide what the major issues would be. I.E. we talked about terrorism and Iraq instead of job loses at home and the loss of civil rights. Kerry blew it, but, Bush ran a wonderful misinformation campaign lying about Kerry and appealing to the low IQ bigots of the country with anti-gay messages and constant claims that Kerry was a neo-communist.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Kerry ran a very bag campaign where he let Vush decide what the major issues would be. I.E. we talked about terrorism and Iraq instead of job loses at home and the lose of civil rights. Kerry blew it but Bush ran a wonderful misinformation campaign lying about Kerry and appealing to the low IQ bigots of the country with anti-gay messages and constient claims that Kerry was a neo-communist.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And of course, according to polls, most Bush backers thought that Bush supported Kyoto and the ICC.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Show us more of that centrist spirit.

Are you seriously claiming the south switched parties in the 1970's for any other reason then racism?

[AnnC]

I witnessed the transition in the 1970s when I was a teenager, and I can confirm that the South became Republican because of racism.

Southern Democrats were divided into pro- and anti-civil-rights camps. Then in the 1970s, Republicans started pandering to anti-civil-rights racists and they switched parties. After that, Southern Democrats were uniformly pro-civil-rights and anti-segregation.

[Thrumble]

Most racists I have known were Democrats, so I guess they switched back.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Ask William Weld if Kerry knows how to run a campaign .

Yea, he's great at getting elected in Massachussetts.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Re: Re: New DNC Chair?

Originally posted by PLATO
See...That's the problem with most Democrats...and why they keep loosing elections. Find someone near the center and your party will begin to rebound. When you polarize the country by going with leftist leaders then the "silent majority" will knee jerk conservative. If the Dems would go more to the middle then the "silent majority" would stay home and watch TV during elections.

Solution: Get a real voting system and split the party.