LET’S SAY you’re a Republican strategist. It’s around 10 P.M. on Tuesday, January 26, and you’re watching Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts, deliver his valedictory speech to supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire. Kerry has just been declared the winner in the New Hampshire primary. A week earlier, he won the Iowa caucuses. You remember that no Democratic presidential candidate who won back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire has ever lost his party’s nomination…
This is your John F.(‘n) Kerry primer.
Truth of the matter is, it doesn’t matter who comes out as the Democratic nominee – - liberals are so blinded by their Bush hatred, they’ll vote in any Liberal fool who gets the nomination. Hate, however, does not win elections.
What does win elections?
That’s easy — a promise of positive contributions that can be brought to this country and a matter of trust.
Is the left’s hatred of Bush the same kind of hatred the right has for Clinton?
Completing my earlier statement, I’ve run across many comparisons to the 1932 elections, and I think this is a great example of an election won by hope rather than hatred. There are those who could look at the election of Roosevelt over Hoover and insist that it was hatred for Hoover and his unfulfilled promises of “a chicken in every pot” that led to the election of Roosevelt. I don’t believe it was that so much as it was the promise of hope and a turnaround from a desperate situation. Now of course, since I wasn’t around at the time, I can’t know for sure, but from what I gather, this is the impression that I get…and this is what the Democrats now seem to be forgetting in their strategy. They’re so busy trying to build up Bush as the biggest enemy to the free world since Adolf Hitler that they’re either forgetting their promise of hope to the nation, or they don’t even have one in the first place.
Just was reading about this today…Roosevelt also said in 1940, “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars”. More than 400,000 lost their lives.
Sandy- that is a good point! He said that to get elected, all the while plotting to enter the war. His plans were to go after Germany, but Japan blindsided him!
There is no equivalency whatsover between our hatred of Clinton’s actions (and inaction in matters of national defense) and the blind intolerance of the left for President Bush’s thoughts and ideals. “Thoughtcrime” is not merely a figment of George Orwell’s fertile imagination, but a reality today – if you start thinking about God, country, the Constitution, and eternal moral values, you automatically become an object of ridicule by “liberals” who will not hesitate to use the power of the government (especially the court system) to cram their twisted beliefs down your throat. This is why I became disillusioned with the Democrats and defected to the Republican side.
Yes “dg”.
The two are synoymous.
Warmonger: “There is no equivalency whatsover between our hatred of Clinton’s actions (and inaction in matters of national defense) and the blind intolerance of the left for President Bush’s thoughts and ideals. “Thoughtcrime” is not merely a figment of George Orwell’s fertile imagination, but a reality today – if you start thinking about God, country, the Constitution, and eternal moral values, you automatically become an object of ridicule by “liberals” who will not hesitate to use the power of the government (especially the court system) to cram their twisted beliefs down your throat.”
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Warmonger, I do believe you nailed it! And the persistence of such liberals only serves to reinforce your point!
Whether or not they are even aware of the fact that they are making it all the more clear, widening the chasm between liberals and conservatives even farther with their relentlessness, remains to be seen, of course.
With the dislike and mistrust of Clinton, from the Right there was an immediate sense of the distortion of values as we know them, a complete twisting around of the rules and rewriting of history as we know it. And there were either two choices: either watch what was happening and watch your blood pressure skyrocket out of control, or ignore what was happening for the sake of your own well-being.
As I see it, with the Left, their hatred of Bush represents a lack of control — a lack of control of the White House, a lack of control of people’s lives, a lack of control over what people can say, think and feel. I think those with a liberal mindset who post here — not all, as some actually do tend to be very respectful and cautious as to how they come across — tend to reinforce all too well their desire to control the mindset of the Right: trying to coerce others into agreeing with them, whether they want to or not; bullying them into submission; etc. They tend to get into the faces of others, causing immense frustration and distraction, reminding us why libs like Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken get on our nerves so much. And hopefully, our good old regulars aren’t going to be so easily frightened off by such tactics.
So, in conclusion, the hatred of the Clintons is a fear of the loss of what is good in this country, whereas the hatred of the Bushes is an attempt to regain control.
That’s how I see it, anyway…
In other words, the conservatives’ chief concern is preserving this country, whereas the liberals’ chief concern is controlling and manipulating the country. And again, we’ve seen some examples from some — not all, but some — liberals who have posted here, be it a direct demand that is not in one’s authority to make or in the form of putting words in the mouths of others through such phrases as “Don’t you agree?” among others.
Of course, what I find so ironic about all of this is the claim that we conservatives cannot stand a differing POV. To me, it appears the opposite — the liberals can’t seem to be content with the fact that there are those out there who simply do not see it their way, and will throw absolutely every line in the book at them until (at least as far as I can tell) the conservatives will (seemingly) finally throw their hands in the air and cry, “All right! I give up! You’re right! Now will you back off already?” And again, not all liberals are like this — not too long ago, I did see a fairly reasonable, respectful person post a differing POV.
Again, JMO…