Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (19859)	5/13/2007 3:23:11 AM
From: RMF	Respond to of 71588

I agree...eom

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (19859)	5/13/2007 4:42:49 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

While, in an environment of Realpolitik, he's as conservative as it can get for the era, he has not been entirely objectionable to a liberal of reason (old fashioned liberal.) But there aren't any of those wielding influence anymore. The true anti-American fifth columnists have a death grip on their party, DESPITE its 2006 success in the congressional races. It has gone way, WAY beyond the normal "criticize the other side while they are in power" tradition that has been the hallmark of a stable two-party system since before the Civil War. It's the fascinating (to CYBERKEN) political phenomenon of our age, and has been since Bush entered his mandatory retirement lap. Reasonable politics dictates that they cite him for criticism to SOME extent, for the purpose of achieving an image advantage for whomever gets their nomination in 2008. Of course that's ineffective, as it was in Reagan's final term. But that's a diffrerent discussion. What they are doing instead is setting themselves up with an image of obstruction and treason when they should be preparing to fight a tough campaign and LEAD if they win. This is a grave and comprehensive error of political strategy for which there is no explanation. Some speculative reasons exist, and a combination of them is likely to give us the answer: 1) The "base": This minority of Democrats raises huge amounts of money and thus exercises undue influence on the party as a whole. This pseudo "base" has proven they cannot turn out votes (see Howard Dean campaign in Iowa, 2004, as well as Bush's easy re-election that same year.), but CAN raise money among themselves. They are the most out-of-the-mainstream interest group ever to hold sway in a party. Their hate for America (which transends their intense hatred of Bush) combines with their bitter contempt for an economic system that has made them wealthy beyond anything they could have dreamed of. They are, in short, unexplainable, though I suspect the thorough intellectual decomposition of the West's academic institutions is the major cause. 2) 1994 and the Clinton impeachment: While disgusting beyond description as an individual, Clinton was a left-leaning moderate as president, rather than a foaming-at-the-mouth Carville-like ideologue. It was a total shock to the Democrats when they won the presidency in 1992, and they got TOO attached to the guy who took over the party. So, when he almost single-handedly destroyed their 40-year death grip on Congressional power, then got caught in acts and crimes that were both morally reprehensible and indefensible, the party literally sold what was left of its soul to arbitrarily let him go free of all charges. Respectable Democrats quietly retired after seeing for themselves that they lacked the guts to keep from selling out to the radical Clinton apologists in the Senate. The bottom line is that-in light of losing the Congress and having to sell out for Clinton-the party could no longer pretend to be a LOYAL opposition, even to themselves. 3) Blacks: The black strategy has been too easy: Race bait and call Republicans "racists", and score an automatic 80-90% majority that even has no qualms whatsoever about multiplying their influence by fabricating votes. Conservatives have been COWED into refusing to mention the greatest social tragedy of our time: the social and intellectual collapse of most of black America under the leadership of the cynical white racist left. 4) Roe: The USSC has mandated murder in a manner equal to the 15th century Christian church (which sold indulgences to the wealthy for cleaning up notty inheritance problems.) The 16th century Reformation was ugly, and was followed by a century of even ugler wars, inquisitions and genocides. The Reformation spawned by the continued inability of the Court to reverse it's damning error in Roe vs Wade may be just as ugly. But the Democrats have lined up with the murderers and manipulate their emotion for votes. It's hard to see the Democrat party surviving any of this in the long run, especially since they were so decimated by the long-term public reaction to their original sell-out to the traitors during Vietnam. They could win the presidency back in 2008 because the McCains and Guilianis are simply not acceptable to enough conservatives to turn them out. But that victory may well be a milestone indicating their accelerating descent into historical oblivion...