Everyone is up in arms about Bush’s “Democrats are appeasers” implication. Given how the party has repeatedly caved-in to the Bush Junta and the GOP when Republicans controlled Congress, it’s hard not to see appeasement, even from someone with his addled point of view.
Howard Dean has certainly been a major appeaser of the Republican Party, recruiting several “Democrats” who are anti-women’s health care, anti-gun control, and pro-death penalty, because they had a better chance of winning in right-wing districts. Never mind that recruiting right-wing “Democrats” means diluting the party’s position on key issues, or the fact that these “Democrats” will have to keep their constituencies at home happy by crossing party-lines quite a few times to work with Republicans.
Then we have Barack Obama, whose centrism actually puts him to the right of Hillary Clinton. Obama is furthering the work started by Dean of diluting both the number and power of liberals within the party in order to court Republican voters. Do the members of the Latte Liberal set condemn Obama for this? Nope. They condemn the Clintons for being centrist and working too often with Republicans — while ignoring Obama’s continuous efforts to meet right-wingers half-way.
If Obama steals the nomination from Clinton and actually pulls off a win against McCain, I wonder how his followers will feel the first time he gets Congressional Dems to water-down a bill just to get some GOP votes? Or maybe the Obamanation thinks his centrism is just a cover, that he’ll use the Democratic Party’s (by then) stronger Congressional majority to happily disenfranchise the GOP if he gets into the Oval Office?
I wouldn’t hold my breath, if I were them. Obama’s entire career has been one of suckering people into his coalition, then abandoning the promises he made to them in order to curry favor with the next person or group he views as the next rung on his ladder to power. If he gets his centrist architecture in place, he won’t be able to remodel without major structural problems occurring.
Between Dean and Obama, the Democratic Party is appeasing itself to a collapse.
I, of course, am sorry for his current condition of,Ted Kennedy but he started the Obama roll to oust the power train of the Clinton’s vs. the Kennedy legacy. Now the Democrat Party leaders, Kennedy and the rest of the Lexus Liberals want women to get their pre- selected from the start of this primary season, elite, wimp, Barack Obama elected in November. It will be cold day in hell before I comply and I also hope Hillary walks away from this Party. Most of the women, and many men as well, with whom I have contact are finished with the Democrat Party, now and forever. Also, many of “US” are starting a grassroots movement to insure these kind of sorry tactics employed by my now soon to be former party, never happen again. This clear favoring of Obama, making him the nominee because the party doesn’t want a woman, especially a Clinton woman, is more that I can tolerate. Of all the gall, the Democrat Party now expects “US” girls, including Hillary, to turn over our undying support to Obama. Sorry guys, this is not going to happen. Obama has no shot of winning in November without Hillary’s help and all of us, her supporters. Not on your life or in your wildest dreams is this going to happen. Democrat Party leaders take heed and you superdelegates had better wait to declare your support until the final results of all the primaries are tallied and the voices of all 50 states and territories are heard from. At that time, the real nominee of the people can be declared for the fall election. Let it be known that the damage has already been done to the largest voting block in America. However, it remains to be seen how deep these “bitterly disappointing and highly blatant attacks” are to women.
I’m thinking the Green Party is going to be my home, depending on how things play out (either in August or November I’ll have decided). The Green Party is actually far more in line with my views than the Democrats have been during the last 20 years.