LMAO!!!

I just finished reading an article in the Washington Post, "Report Warns Democrats Not to Tilt Too Far Left," by Thomas B. EdsallWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 7, 2005. After picking myself up off the floor, I carefully pondered the significance this article should have on the Democratic establishment.

I actually think that the writer is on to something and definitely on the right track when he cites two Democratic analysts, William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck, on how the Democratic party should proceed in the future to begin winning the hearts and minds of the American electorate and begin winning elections.

Galston and Kamrack came up with the following:

· They warn against overreliance on a strategy of solving political problems by "reframing" the language by which they present their ideas, as advocated by linguist George Lakoff of the University of California at Berkeley: "The best rhetoric will fail if the public rejects the substance of a candidate's agenda or entertains doubts about his integrity."
· They say liberals who count on rising numbers of Hispanic voters fail to recognize the growing strength of the GOP among Hispanics, as well as the growing weakness of Democrats with white Catholics and married women.
· They contend that Democrats who hope the party's relative advantages on health care and education can vault them back to power "fail the test of political reality in the post-9/11 world." Security issues have become "threshold" questions for many voters, and cultural issues have become "a prism of candidates' individual character and family life," Galston and Kamarck argue.

Furthermore, they acknowledge that the Republican base is larger than the Democrats.

So why am I laughing?

I am laughing because, if someone went and gave the Democratic party a real formula to win elections, they couldn't adhere to it. They are their own worst enemy. Their biggest problem is that they think with their hearts and not with their minds, or rather, emotion over reason. This tends to get most individuals in trouble and most Americans recognize that when Democrats hit the stumps sniveling, getting angry and generally losing their minds, i.e. Al gore & Howard Dean, they come off as weak-kneed cowards who can only call toppositionion nasty names and are devoid of any real solutions.

Galston and Kamrack go on to encourage the Democratic party to clone the Clinton strategies for winning elections. But I say that even this won't wobecauseuse Clinton won in 92 because the Republican base was split, a la Perot, and won in 96 only because the Republican base was not energized to turn out to vote for Bob Dole. Thus, Clinton's fortunes were due not to political superiority but more due to being in the right position at the right time.

So if the Dems all begin to move to the center, mark my words, they can't stand success and will quickly revert to the degenerate platforms that have kept them out of power for the last five years, actually 20 since they haven't controlled Congress in those years. Abortion, gun-control, spineless foreign policies are losing issues.