Text 12563, 104 rader
Skriven 2005-05-13 05:51:32 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
  Kommentar till text 12559 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
Ärende: Re: NWS Privatization
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13 May 05 00:52, Ed Connell wrote to Stan Hardegree:

 EC> Hey, Stan.

 VH>>>> I think it's a mid-life crisis -- they want to go back to
 VH>>>> those pot-smoking free-sex days when their parents supported
 VH>>>> them.

 JB>>> I've been saying it for years.  This is why I am so hopeful
 JB>>> because the younger generations after them are nowhere near
 JB>>> like them.

 SH>> You know, this is a problem dems must address in the near future 
 SH>> if they expect to survive.  Their get out the youth vote drives 
 SH>> last year didn't bear much fruit for them, military service is back 
 SH>> in fashion and younger voters are tracking Republican.

 JB>>>  The liberals have peaked and are on the decline.
 JB>>> They just won't admit it to themselves.

 SH>> They have to do something to eliminate the hateful nature of their
 SH>> party.  We see components of it here every day.

 EC> Here's where I think things stand.

 EC> Ahem.

 EC> For years the liberals lied and got away with it because the main 
 EC> stream media was their ally; there was no alternative to the main stream 
 EC> media. Every Republican president but Nixon in recent memory has been 
 EC> portrayed as stupid except Nixon and he was portrayed as evil.

 EC> On the other hand, Democrat presidents and their contenders have 
 EC> been, like Adlai Stevenson, portrayed as intellectual giants.  Kennedy 
 EC> along with his whole clan was annointed.  Does Cuomo ring a bell?  How 
 EC> about Hilary?  Ma Richards was on her way until she got sidetracked by 
 EC> that unintellectual George W. Bush.  With all of this going for him, 
 EC> Carter was too stupid to get out of his own way.  How many times have we 
 EC> heard that in private, Al Gore is the life of the party.  What a crock!  
 EC> That's crock, not crook...well, that too. <g>  How many people flunk out 
 EC> of Divinity School?

 EC> FDR and Truman hobnobbed with agents from the throne of Stalin, 
 EC> "Uncle Joe" as they fondly called him.  Carter spent his whole adult life
 EC> saying that Communism isn't so bad.  Clinton gave military secrets to 
 EC> China and a ship terminal in California in exchange for campaign funds.  

Don't forget Carter gave away the Panama Canal, too!  The Chinese are now
entrenched there as well.


 EC> To Ramsey Clark the worst Communist dictator is nothing but agrarian 
 EC> reformer.

 EC> The Democrats have had their share of surprises.  What should they 
 EC> expect when they start believing their own lies.  I think one of the 
 EC> biggest, before the stunning election in Iraq was the election in 
 EC> Nicaragua.  Of course there was plenty of egg on their faces after Jim 
 EC> Wright's "Dear Commandante" letter that was immediately followed by 
 EC> Ortega's Moscow trip. Reagan's defeat of Communism is still their biggest 
 EC> surprise and tragedy. They still won't admit it, but Reagan called his 
 EC> shot first.  It was no fluke.  Remember how the liberals quaked in fear of

 EC> Reagan's confrontation of the USSR?  Now they claim that that nation was 
 EC> crumbling from the inside. Funny, they lied about that too. <g>

History will, in the end, show Reagan to be our greatest president since the
Civil War.


 EC> The cruelest surprise was when the Democrat lies were exposed via 
 EC> new means of communication.  Talk radio, cable news, the Internet.  Each 
 EC> played a role in breaking the back of the left-wing monopoly and happily, 
 EC> they all happened in our lifetime.  Democrats are like a kid caught with 
 EC> his hand in the cookie jar.  Their sin is right there for everyone to see 
 EC> - and they can't stand it.  Their erstwhile allies, like the NY Times, the

 EC> LA Times, and the Washington Post, along with the traditional three TV 
 EC> networks, are paddling like crazy, but alas, they are naked.  (Not nude, 
 EC> but nude and up to something.  Louis Grizzard - rest in peace.)

 EC> Now they are acting like any wild animal which finds itself 
 EC> surrounded.  It just strikes out wildly in every direction - no direction 
 EC> in particular. They have nothing left but venom.  Harry Reid's calling 
 EC> Bush a loser is not the act of someone who is confident that he has right 
 EC> on his side.  Notice that Democrat proclamations are always short on 
 EC> detail.  They swipe with grandiose strokes and hope that no one will ask 
 EC> them about the details. During the recent presidential campaign, Kerry 
 EC> stated over and over that he had a plan for this and that, but he would 
 EC> never disclose the details. Hint: there were none - there was no plan.

 EC> In short, your search for a smart liberal is doomed. <g>  Even a 
 EC> search for a pleasant liberal seems hopeless.


Excellent analysis, Ed, and right on the mark in my opinion.

John 

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