Palin said she would campaign for “conservative Democrats”, which I find infuriating.

If there’s currently a “conservative” Democrat in office, all that means is that particular politician is in a conservative district taking the place of a much more conservative Republican. We should still be going after these Democrats, even if they occasionally break the party line here and there.

I really don’t buy the whole “conservative Democrat” meme. If you feel you have conservative principles, why are a member of a left-wing political party? Why not be a member of the conservative political party? That decision in of itself speaks volumes about a person’s true ideology. These conservative Democrats are really spineless liberals that just want to get reelected in Republican districts. If they were in a more liberal part of the country, they would let their freak flag fly.

Thirty or forty years ago, I could understand being a conservative and having a home in the Democrat Party, but those days are long gone. Look at the modern heads of the Democrat Party, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, etc. It’s no longer a centrist political party, but a leftist/socialist party.

I highly doubt any Democrat will take her silly offer, but we should show Miss Palin the door if she actually campaigns for any of them.

That’s how you build street cred. Palin wants and needs street cred.

It will be a Blue Dog campaign, I suspect.

not and hold Party or elected office anyway. Sure, there’s some “legacies” like Zell Miller who hold on to the D for old time’s sake, but if he showed up at a Democrat gathering, it would look like everybody had been to a Saul Alinsky bean dinner beforehand.

Once the McGovernites got a grip on the Party apparatus after the ’72 election, they went on a purge worthy of Pol Pot in ideological terms. I went through it in the late ’70s when I was still with the AFL-CIO. We were old-fashioned AFL trade unionists and were staunchly anti-communist and our members were religious and pro-life; the McGovernite Democrats HATED us and did everything they could to drive us away. Only as the AFL-CIO has become dominated by public employees has it become the socialist workers party affiliate of the Democrat Party. The Clinton/Gore years at DLC toned back the rhetoric and changed the style, but it was simply to hide true agendae so that they could get elected. No Democrat could say what s/he really thinks and get elected ANYWHERE outside a deep Blue city, a university campus, and, maybe, Hollywood – even Hollywood doesn’t much like taxes that they think they’ll have to pay.

The Ds have the rhetoric down though. We had to have a staunch, religious conservative run to the right of Lisa Murkowski to keep her rightward so that Tony Knowles wouldn’t run to the right of her in the general. Both Knowles in his day and Begich today, sound more like a Republican than most Republicans and you have to know them and follow their actions to know they’re lying; most voters don’t follow anything but the conservative sounding TV commericials, and that’s how Ds get elected.

With a president who is destroying the economy, dismantling the defense’s and crippling the intelligence community with threats of prosecution, the status quo is out the window when THESE pigeons come home to roost!
Obama and anyone with the remotest ties to him including and especially the MSM will be carrying plague. Palin is positioning herself for a major role in a huge political upheaval.

The Democratic Party is broken, if Palin can help it at the grassroots level that would be good for the country. There are places in this country were democrats out register republicans 10 to 1. In such an area, does it make more since to support a moderate to liberal republican, or to support a conservative democrat?

Newt seems to be suggesting we support the liberal republican. In terms of building the party that might be a good idea. In terms of build a governing coalition to pass your agenda it better to support the conservative democrat.

Does support mean you go out and campaign for the conservative democrat? No not necessarily? It might mean that you mention that person to your supporters. Maybe you give some money to something you both support to build bridges.

I am going to be nice so I do end up feeling ashamed later, and just write that some of you folks really need to calm down. Many political organizations lead by women operate more on issues than party labels. Palin comes from that school of thought, and so far it has worked for her, but she is also a life long Republican.

How broken is the Democratic Party? Any Democrat in West Virginia, Ohio, or Western Pennsylvania that is in favor of Cap and Tax is proof the party is broken. They should be easily defeat by a primary challenge.

If Murtha had faced a primary challenge, he would be gone. If there were, more conservatives in the Democratic Party Nancy Pelosi would not be the speaker.

Go to a tea party and meet some angry democrats. They do not believe that the Republican Party has all the answers.

Let’s say you’re a Cowboys fan, the team’s been losing do you start cheering for the Redskins, or do you start screaming for a Cowboys rebuilding effort. Since people do not find it easy to change loyalties, both parties need fixing if we are going to save this country.

(i am a life long black republican — i’ve met plantation democrats who agree with me on issues — they need baby step)

sans Taylor and Minnick is no more. The last true ones joined the GOP after the 1994 election. The so called “Blue Dogs” just act folksy but vote the liberal party line. Why their constituents still fall for it is beyond me.