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Democrats and Republicans: An Unbridgeable Divide
Philip V. Brennan
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Doug Bailey is an acknowledged political guru – a longtime political consultant who founded the "Hotline" which calls itself "National Journal's Daily Briefing on Politics." He has come up with one of the more bizarre ideas ever to hit the political scene – he wants to run an online presidential nominating convention to pick a Democrat and a Republican to run as a team in the 2008 presidential election.
He calls it the "Unity08 online convention," which will nominate one Republican and one Democrat in whatever order for a Unity Ticket. The nominees will run for the nomination as a team and they will be nominated by the online convention as a team (just the way we vote for the two top slots with one vote in November).
All this is done on the Internet. No evil smoke-filled rooms for this band of angels: Let the people speak – online!
Aside from the looniness of this idea propounded by a guy who ought to know better, the reasoning behind it is that the nation is bitterly divided and needs to get its act together. I listened to Mr. Bailey speak about his brainchild on the Michael Medved show and was astounded by the naivete he expressed in asking, as did Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along together?"
Okay. Fine. Unity is a commendable goal, but in this case one must ask "At what price unity?"
Bailey makes the point that the two parties are at each other's throats, can't follow Rodney King's admonition, and are now barely speaking to each other. In Bailey's mind, this is not only intolerable, but just plain stupid. He seems to be asking, "What's to argue about?"
Why can't they just get along together? Why, he asks, can't they put aside their petty political and philosophical differences, sit down and work things out in an amicable fashion, shake hands, and get on with dealing with the real issues, like achieving energy independence in a spirit of unity and cooperation?
A friend of mine once described a mutual acquaintance involved in political consulting as being "a little too professional," meaning too immersed in the mechanics of electing candidates without giving any consideration to what they stand for.
In the present case this describes Mr. Bailey. He is so dedicated to promoting unity that he fails to recognize the fact that there is a genuine reason for the disconnect between the two parties which is no longer just a matter of one party's desire to win elections and defeat the other for nothing more than the pragmatic goal of controlling one or both of the houses of Congress – of who gets to be king of the Hill.
He fails to understand that what divides the two major parties are major moral, philosophical, and political issues – for the first time in my long lifetime, there is a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, only this time its a few trillion dollars' worth of difference, if I may expand on the late George Wallace's dicta.
On one side stand the Democrats, who I have for a long time called the National Socialist Democrat Abortion Party (NSDAP), which is now hell bent to live up to that description. In short, the Democrat party today is the party of Karl Marx.
Its platform is 100 percent socialist, based on the Marxian idea that a cow can fatten itself by sucking on its own udders. It is essentially, like Marx, the party of atheism.
The NSDAP has a brutal contempt for human life and has allowed itself to become a well-paid advocate for the butchers at Planned Parenthood. It sold itself to the treasure-filled coffers of the Trial Lawyers of America and the teachers unions, protecting and promoting their interests against those of the American people being victimized by rising medical costs hiked up by inflated judgments and unable to expect their children to be properly educated in America's failed government schools.
Given the NSDAP's way, the deaths of over 2,600 American soldiers and Marines would have been in vain should America follow its tragic path in Vietnam and cut and run.
Finally, the Democrat party has been captured by the greatest conglomeration of crazies ever assembled on the American political scene.
It craves and survives on taxation as a vampire craves and survives on human blood. In the face of the economic boom created by the Bush tax cuts it promises to dismantle that boom by repealing the tax cuts and wreck the economy by imposing new taxes.
Facing this socialist juggernaut is the Republican party. It is militantly pro-life, pro-family, pro-tax cut and anti-socialist. It may not be perfect or satisfy all the cravings of conservatives, but it is the sole bulwark we have against the bloody programs of Karl Marx that produced the Soviet, Cuban, and Chinese Communist slave camps and the death camps of Hitler's National Socialism.
These are the issues that divide the parties today. They are not subject to solution by compromise, only by abject surrender – which neither party will accept.
No, Doug, we can't all just get along, any more than mankind can get along with rattlesnakes or black widow spiders by sitting down with them and reasoning with them.
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No more of this "bipartisan" bullcrap. Let's get it on.
Democrats and Republicans: An Unbridgeable Divide
Philip V. Brennan
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Doug Bailey is an acknowledged political guru – a longtime political consultant who founded the "Hotline" which calls itself "National Journal's Daily Briefing on Politics." He has come up with one of the more bizarre ideas ever to hit the political scene – he wants to run an online presidential nominating convention to pick a Democrat and a Republican to run as a team in the 2008 presidential election.
He calls it the "Unity08 online convention," which will nominate one Republican and one Democrat in whatever order for a Unity Ticket. The nominees will run for the nomination as a team and they will be nominated by the online convention as a team (just the way we vote for the two top slots with one vote in November).
All this is done on the Internet. No evil smoke-filled rooms for this band of angels: Let the people speak – online!
Aside from the looniness of this idea propounded by a guy who ought to know better, the reasoning behind it is that the nation is bitterly divided and needs to get its act together. I listened to Mr. Bailey speak about his brainchild on the Michael Medved show and was astounded by the naivete he expressed in asking, as did Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along together?"
Okay. Fine. Unity is a commendable goal, but in this case one must ask "At what price unity?"
Bailey makes the point that the two parties are at each other's throats, can't follow Rodney King's admonition, and are now barely speaking to each other. In Bailey's mind, this is not only intolerable, but just plain stupid. He seems to be asking, "What's to argue about?"
Why can't they just get along together? Why, he asks, can't they put aside their petty political and philosophical differences, sit down and work things out in an amicable fashion, shake hands, and get on with dealing with the real issues, like achieving energy independence in a spirit of unity and cooperation?
A friend of mine once described a mutual acquaintance involved in political consulting as being "a little too professional," meaning too immersed in the mechanics of electing candidates without giving any consideration to what they stand for.
In the present case this describes Mr. Bailey. He is so dedicated to promoting unity that he fails to recognize the fact that there is a genuine reason for the disconnect between the two parties which is no longer just a matter of one party's desire to win elections and defeat the other for nothing more than the pragmatic goal of controlling one or both of the houses of Congress – of who gets to be king of the Hill.
He fails to understand that what divides the two major parties are major moral, philosophical, and political issues – for the first time in my long lifetime, there is a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, only this time its a few trillion dollars' worth of difference, if I may expand on the late George Wallace's dicta.
On one side stand the Democrats, who I have for a long time called the National Socialist Democrat Abortion Party (NSDAP), which is now hell bent to live up to that description. In short, the Democrat party today is the party of Karl Marx.
Its platform is 100 percent socialist, based on the Marxian idea that a cow can fatten itself by sucking on its own udders. It is essentially, like Marx, the party of atheism.
The NSDAP has a brutal contempt for human life and has allowed itself to become a well-paid advocate for the butchers at Planned Parenthood. It sold itself to the treasure-filled coffers of the Trial Lawyers of America and the teachers unions, protecting and promoting their interests against those of the American people being victimized by rising medical costs hiked up by inflated judgments and unable to expect their children to be properly educated in America's failed government schools.
Given the NSDAP's way, the deaths of over 2,600 American soldiers and Marines would have been in vain should America follow its tragic path in Vietnam and cut and run.
Finally, the Democrat party has been captured by the greatest conglomeration of crazies ever assembled on the American political scene.
It craves and survives on taxation as a vampire craves and survives on human blood. In the face of the economic boom created by the Bush tax cuts it promises to dismantle that boom by repealing the tax cuts and wreck the economy by imposing new taxes.
Facing this socialist juggernaut is the Republican party. It is militantly pro-life, pro-family, pro-tax cut and anti-socialist. It may not be perfect or satisfy all the cravings of conservatives, but it is the sole bulwark we have against the bloody programs of Karl Marx that produced the Soviet, Cuban, and Chinese Communist slave camps and the death camps of Hitler's National Socialism.
These are the issues that divide the parties today. They are not subject to solution by compromise, only by abject surrender – which neither party will accept.
No, Doug, we can't all just get along, any more than mankind can get along with rattlesnakes or black widow spiders by sitting down with them and reasoning with them.
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No more of this "bipartisan" bullcrap. Let's get it on.