About those Dem ads creating a backlash against the Dems:
DEM BUMS WILL TAKE A BEATING
ON DIRTY ADS
By RAY KERRISON
THE one sure thing about today's elections is that
the Democratic Party will take a shellacking at the
ballot box - again.
By tonight, Democrats will suffer more losses in
the House of Representatives, the Senate,
governor mansions, state legislatures and
municipal governments all across the land,
continuing their deadly extinction since the
Clintons took over the White House.
If polls and pundits are correct, by tonight, the
party will be crushed to its weakest national
standing in 50 years, shorn of influence,
patronage, unity and confidence.
As a political tool, the Big Lie is not working.
Once again, Democrats have been on a wild
scare binge, frightening the shirts off the elderly,
kids and women about Social Security, school
lunches, the environment, welfare etc.
Former Sen. Bob Dole, on Fox News Sunday,
complained, In every state I've been in, the
Democrat is running an ad that Republicans are
going to cut Social Security benefits, which is not
true.
Sen. Pat Moynihan, the New York Democrat on the
same show, cried out, You are dead right. I have
seen some of these ads and they are a shame on
us.
Three cheers for Pat Moynihan. Here's a
Democrat offended by his party's lies and not
afraid to stand up and say so. It's scandalous, he
added.
Even more scurrilous is the Democratic radio
commercial being blared around the country that
falsely ties Republicans to violence.
It goes like this, When you don't vote, you let
another church explode. When you don't vote, you
allow another cross to burn. When you don't vote,
you let another assault wound a brother or sister.
When you don't vote, you let Republicans continue
to cut school lunches and Head Start.
This is absolute poison because it implies that if
you don't vote Democrat, the Republicans will
blow up your churches, burn crosses on your lawn
and attack black citizens.
These ads are really disgusting, said House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas. The
Democrats have spent millions upon millions of
dollars in the last three elections, doing these
kinds of ads - that we're throwing the elderly out on
the streets, starving children, destroying Social
Security, polluting the environment. I find it
unsettling that the Democratic Party has sunk so
low.
The good news is that all these incendiary tactics,
promoting hate, are not working. At every election
since the rogue Clinton presidency began,
Democrats have lost seats by the hundreds all
over the country.
And the losses will mount again tonight. The
Democrats could lose as many as 20 seats in the
House, three in the Senate, and uncounted
numbers at the state and local levels.
This indisputable political fact is probably the
single best reason for pragmatic New York voters
to send Sen. Al D'Amato back to Washington for
another term.
He's been there 18 years, heads the powerful
Banking Committee and is placed to bring great
benefits to New York. If voters replace him with
Rep. Chuck Schumer, Texan Phil Gramm will take
over Banking. Schumer will be little more than a
stick of furniture.
New York would lose both ways. D'Amato can be
an exasperating pol for friend and foe alike. He's a
shrewd, tenacious little buzz saw, essentially and
consistently pro-life, boisterously pro-New York
with a great zest for combat and hot-button
issues.
He should not be forgotten for his great efforts in
bringing to account the thugs who murdered
Yankel Rosenbaum in the Crown Heights riot.
Without him, justice would never have been done.
But then he does such things as shut off
competition in New York Republican primaries and
promote the homosexual agenda.
Al is Al and there's no changing him, but against
Chuck Schumer, the great infanticide supporter, Al
is king.
For political junkies, many of today's contests are
riveting, but for most Americans, they are routine.
The Cold War is over, there is no shooting war,
unemployment is near its lowest level and there is
a spirit of contentment across the great land.
There are no real hard secular issues, which is
why the D'Amato-Schumer contest is a personality
blitzkrieg rather than an ideological or agenda
conflict.
The prime issues in America today are cultural -
and politicians want no part of that.
One race I'll follow with special interest is Sen.
Ernest Fritz Hollings' close battle in South
Carolina. Fritz, 76, has held office for 24 years but
he could be beaten today by Republican Bob
Igliss.
It was the sneaky Fritz who joined Sen. Edward
Kennedy in a treacherous midnight strike years
ago in an attempt to kill this newspaper. They
failed. Maybe, today will be payback time.
But with or without Chuck or Fritz, it's going to be a
blue day for the Democratic Party.
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