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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (481384)	10/26/2003 5:33:15 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Heres something that was in print last night that will probably make your heart glad. jdn Why America Hates the Democrats What is with the Democrats lately? This past week they were nastier to each other than we could ever be. Andrew Cuomo blasted his party as "soulless and clueless" and even praised President Bush. Sen. Zell Miller renamed the White House wannabes and other leftists for pushing the "shrinking party" into a "breakdown." Howard Dean lashed back at Rep. Dick Gephardt and other rivals for "distorting his positions for months" when, "with a combined three-quarters of a century in Washington, D.C., they have delivered few real results." New York Democrats such as Rep. Charlie Rangel lashed out at Wesley Clark for his doomed support of the military's crucial base on Vieques, Puerto Rico. (This just weeks after Rangel was lavishing praise on the retired general.) Even the presidential contenders admit that Americans don't like the Democrat party. Their views on why this is so are fascinating. David Brooks noted in the New York Times that the Dems campaigning in New Hampshire and Iowa have been trying to explain why Democrats have plunged from 49 percent of the electorate in the days of FDR to 32 percent today. Dean says the party must return to its roots instead of compromising with Republicans. Gephardt says free trade has betrayed workers. Lieberman notes that the party has gone too far left and too secular. "John Edwards has the most persuasive theory," Brooks wrote. Voters "are really good at knowing who respects them and who doesn't. Edwards' theory is that the Democrats' besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery." The senator, a multimillionaire trial lawyer whose father worked in a textile mill, said when announcing his candidacy, "Democrats too often act like rural America is just someplace to fly over between a fundraiser in Manhattan and a fundraiser in Beverly Hills." Brooks wrote: "When I interviewed people during the 2000 campaign I found many voters preferred Democratic policies to Republican ones. But they didn't trust Al Gore because they thought he looked down on them. They felt Bush could come to their barbershop and fit right in. "Except for Bill Clinton, Democrats have nominated presidential candidates who try to figure out Middle American values by reading the polls, instead of feeling them in their gut. If they do it again, the long, slow slide will continue." There's just one problem with Edwards' analysis: As NewsMax.com reported way back in June, he himself has demonstrated a Gore-like contempt for the folks in North Carolina and the rest of flyover country by making a condescending remark about farmers and saying he no longer listened to country music, paid attention to NASCAR races, or even owned a gun. And the "long, slow slide" continues.