Had this been Christie Todd Whitman or a host of other Republicans, it would have been the lead story on the nightly news today.
William Daley of the Chicago Clan, former Bill Clinton’s Commerce Secretary and Al Gore’s President Campaign Chairman in 2000, sees all sorts of apocalyptic warning signs on the horizon for the Democrats.
Witness the losses in New Jersey and Virginia in this year’s off-year elections. In those gubernatorial contests, the margin of victory was provided to Republicans by independents — many of whom had voted for Obama. Just one year later, they had crossed back to the Republicans by 2-to-1 margins.
Witness the drumbeat of ominous poll results. Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 49 percent overall and is even lower — 41 percent — among independents. On the question of which party is best suited to manage the economy, there has been a 30-point swing toward Republicans since November 2008, according to Ipsos. Gallup’s generic congressional ballot shows Republicans leading Democrats. There is not a hint of silver lining in these numbers. They are the quantitative expression of the swing bloc of American politics slipping away.
And, of course, witness the loss of Rep. Griffith and his fellow moderate Democrats who will retire. They are perhaps the truest canaries in the coal mine.
Now, every time I write something critical about a liberal Republican or point out that maybe we should aggressively primary Parker Griffith, the whinny little girl on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow both mock the GOP as a small tent growing smaller.
In fact, whenever an unkind word is said about Olympia Snowe, it is just further proof that the GOP is a party made of intolerant, close minded white guys.
But here is the thing — the one story the media can never report is the flood of Republicans becoming Democrats. Why? Because it does not happen.
Under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama we have seen lots of Democrats become Republicans. We have seen lots of liberals become conservatives. But we rarely, rarely more rarely than a snow leopard in the Himalayas see a Republican or a conservative going over to their side.
In other words, they are projecting.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
I can already see Democrat's response
aelie (Diary) Thursday, December 24th at 11:30PM EST (link)It’s more ‘stimulus’ spending to ‘revive’ the economy and ‘reduce’ unemployment.
I have to give where it’s due though. Daley is a shred political operative, and he can clearly see how his party is digging it’s own grave. He is absolutely correct in pointing out that “the agenda of the party’s most liberal supporters has not won the support of a majority of Americans.” He then goes on to point out accurately that the refusal of liberals to accept this reality will lead to “permanent defeat.”
But Democratic leaders (especially Pelosi) most likely won’t heed this warning. They are too confident in their sense of invincibility – in other words, hubris. Their fall is inevitable, and let’s see how far they fall.
Watching this Panorama
audax (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 3:24AM EST (link)…should be fun…and in the end…BENEFICIAL to Conservative (NOUNS)…let’s do our part and keep the drums beating!
Audeamus pro audere est facere
I ask you
oldgeezerguy Friday, December 25th at 12:00AM EST (link)Can BHO all of a sudden try to sound like Ron Paul and get anybody to try to believe it?
Believe him?
edwlstr Wednesday, December 30th at 1:55AM EST (link)BHO could tell me he was a half black man born in Mombasa, Kenya, that I would believe. Anything else? Like they say; “If his lips are moving….”
Let's Not Forget
saintgeorgegentile Friday, December 25th at 12:33AM EST (link)He’s also the smarter, younger brother of Chicago’s Mayor, Richard II.
Freedom is the glue of capitalism, that amoral wisdom of the markets that most efficiently allots goods and services to a citizenry.
-Victor Davis Hanson
The GOP Tent Has Been Bigger
fpete13527 (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 12:36AM EST (link)GOP has more tolerance and willingness for more views (currently I wish less so!!!!). Also, the GOP has always at least “tried” to do things that are FOR the country…even if at times loosing their way. Even many Dems know that.
Regarding core Dem doctrine though…DEMS ACTIVELY DONT LIKE THE COUNTRY AND DONT WANT TO DO THINGS FOR IT. They want the country changed to Socialism or better yet Communism. Some Dems figure out how sick this is and change for the better to GOP
The GOP tent expanded a lot in recent years. I wish that it didnt though becuase the expansion has mutated into “Huffington Moderacy Mentality” which is more like malignant damaging cancer, then, tolerance.
For future I DONT WANT A TENT CONCEPT……I WANT A GIGANTIC ENROLLER MAGNET (AceInTx).
The real first point though (lame stream media bias) goes to the heart of most significant “Trim Tab” we will need to impact in order to expound on and grow the already increasing “magnetism” toward conservatism…..and that “Trim Tab” is the media. In my oppionion we have got to impact the lame stream media that is currently 10,000 radical liberal to one. They will continue to distort, skew, lie, slander, corrupt, and extort until they are stopped or changed ….or….until there is a powerful new one generated that is wide scale and far reching on the order of a “pure conservative” cable channel that will FORCE them to change….empowered by us.
Change?
edwlstr Wednesday, December 30th at 2:03AM EST (link)This change notion allows them to change until elected. Let’s not allow these men a “jailhouse salvation experience”. Everybody in the joint has found Jesus if it benefits their living condition. After they are released they go back to their previous modus operandi. The Dems are still a bunch of mother stabbers and father rapers, in my humble opinion.
On the one hand
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 1:43AM EST (link)it’s nice to think people can’t stay stupid forever.
Then I think of Specter, who tacked the R on for convenience and kept it tacked on for decades only to eventually show his true colors and switch back to D when R no longer suits his perceived needs… IMO all politicians need some degree of skeptical eye kept on them.
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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You are too generous on Christmas day!
clintonformccain Friday, December 25th at 9:37AM EST (link)Skeptical eye? No, I take it farther than that. My operative theory of politics is “throw the bums out and then in the next election, throw the new bums out, too!”
LOL...line of the week!
LibertarianHawk (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 1:53AM EST (link)“the whinny little girl on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow both mock the GOP as a small tent growing smaller.”
That there’s just quality humor.
part of the problem
bags64 Friday, December 25th at 6:11AM EST (link)is the stacked deck against which Conservatives play.
if the media were even in it’s coverage, or *gasp* as tilted for conservatives as they are for liberalism, this would be an 85%-15% conservative to liberal country, instead of the 50/50 we have now.
for those wanting a cite to my %s above, i profess they are as accurate as the economic growth figures put out for last quarter.
Snarkification awaits those who dare to read on......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, December 25th at 6:19AM EST (link)The biggest tent belongs to Sally Struthers.
Sorry,
It’s Christmas.
I’m gonna try all day to lighten things up a bit.
In the last few decades
persiflage Friday, December 25th at 9:39AM EST (link)it truly has seemed as though it is the D party that demands lock-step hegemony of its members – at least in their public manifestations on the national stage. This (seemingly) unified front/unanimity of thought has been an enforced strategy of the D party (and labor unions) for a long time. The D’s and unions’ hierarchy act like tribalists when they demand such uniformity of thought and action in their members – but it’s their way of identifying the “true” members of their tribe, and separating them from the “others”. And yes, the leftists really do project a lot. This is kind of funny, since the modern D party has taken on the characteristics (backwards-looking, rigidity of opinion, central command and control) that they always used to (and still do) criticize the R party for!
“A republic, if you can keep it…” – B. Franklin
Republicans miss the point too
philbo Friday, December 25th at 11:54AM EST (link)“— the one story the media can never report is the flood of Republicans becoming Democrats. Why? Because it does not happen.”
I know many many former Republicans, including myself, but not a single one of them switched to being a Democrat. We all gave up on the GOP because they are effectively nothing more than Assistant Democrats.
The problem with Democrats switching to the GOP is that it tends to make the GOP even less attractive for conservatives like me because those switchers are almost always clones of the Republicans who make the GOP so unappealing to us in the first place.
The RINOs see these switchers as validation for their “big tent” strategy that has rendered their party as the party stands for nothing. The switchers are rare anomalies who don’t reflect the more important phenomena of what is going on with voters themselves .
As voters flee the Democratic Party in droves, Republican registration continues to decline. THAT is the important factor. Who knows why politicians do what they do. They are always cutting deals for their own cynical reasons. But we all know why the independent ranks of voters is swelling. Tea Party. We don’t like the one-party system. It’s the Sarah Palins, Dick Armeys, Jim Demints who are leading us out of this socialist one-party quandary, not the Parker Griffiths and Joe Leibermans.
Pasadena Phil
2010 elections
sarge324 Monday, December 28th at 6:30AM EST (link)boy its going to be intresting.iam praying for an overhaul of the legislative powers.stay mad and vote on 2010.