Comments on: On The Post’s Obituary Of The Democratic Party

By: Samantha the Deluded Liberal

Samantha the Deluded Liberal — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:12:16 +0000

Do you live in the big city of what ? The vast majority of conservatives are fiscally conservative/socially moderate

Not psychotic social liberals or fundamentalist social conservatives
Take a hike

I assure that the Democratic Party will die unless it becomes socially moderate and socially libertarian

Forget social liberalism
Forget social conservatism

So moderate and libertarian

By: dan t

dan t — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:40:43 +0000

I get what he was saying. But in reality neither of the parties are really ever dead. Over the next fifty or so years we’ll probably see control of Congress alternate at least twice every ten or so years and a majority of the state legislatures alternate at least once every 10 to 15 years. There will never again be the type of 140 year domination by democrats here in the deep south by either party or the 40 year type run that the dems had over the House prior to Newt. Thats one thing you can bury in the graveyard and forget about. Both parties are just too entrenched to allow something like that to happen in this day and time.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:14:39 +0000

Bravo, Samantha!!

By: Samantha Y.

Samantha Y. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:12:09 +0000

If I had a nickel for every time last year that some self-identified Republican friend came to me, their token “liberal friend,” to say how badly they wished for socially liberal, fiscally conservative moderates to vote for, I’d be a wealthy woman – maybe even well-off enough to run for office.

As it stood, I just told them to vote for Tennessee Democrats.

These are people who don’t care if gays marry, who are not racists, who believe in choice even when they find the choice distasteful, who believe that government does have a role in helping people back on their feet, who believe that good public education is a foundation for the state’s entire economy, who find the current healthcare system fundamentally flawed. They are Blue Dog Democrats who don’t know it because the Tennessee Democratic Party has FAILED these voters AND the rest of us by not stepping up and reframing the debate away from the straw men put forth by the TNGOP. Instead of going on the offensive, we play defense against the likes of Hobbs and Campfield and don’t remind Joe Q. Voter of what we STAND FOR, as opposed to what we don’t, and wonder why this state gets redder every year.

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