1968 - 2008

[BeatleBoot]

Forty years....

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, *

Twelve years of Democratic rule of those 40 years.

30% Dem, 70% Repuke

We need to get our shit together ladies and gentlemen.

I suck because I want to change these statistics and I do not know how. I work my ass off, I'm committed, I walk the talk, I battle Repukes every day of my life.

I will die a Democrat.

I believe in my Dad. He is a WWII Vet and a retired Union guy. He grew up in the light of FDR. My Dad thinks Mario Cuomo is the smartest guy on the planet and when I hear Cuomo speak I agree with my old man.

If this past election taught me anything, its that my bones, my blood, my moral fiber is Democrat. And that I love my country.

But I am afraid that the The New Deal is dead with * .

I feel like I owe it to my Dad's generation to keep fighting for what they fought for, you know?

Whatever, just a stream of thought, thinking out loud, kind of post...

[petepillow]

1. Love your name, feel your pain

absolutely feel what you're saying!

[ramapo]

2. It's quite a record.

Carter won because of backlash against Nixon/Watergate. Clinton won on a split vote twice. Neither strong endorsements of the Democratic platform. It didn't help that Democrats worked as hard at destroying Carter as the Republicans.

Democrats have been close a few times in the race for prez but there has been a steady decline in the Congress.

LBJ was right when he signed the civil rights bill...the Democrats lost the south as the racist legislators switched parties.

Democrats have been afriad to be Democrats for a long time. Kerry tried but there was some muddle there. It's a long road back from here. It'll take some significant Republican stumbles to change the political landscape.

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. By 2008, three men, two Republicans and one Democrat, will have been

president for 24 of my (then) 38 years of life. The worst times in my life (personally, even as a kid when Reagan was president) have been when a Republican was in office. The best time, financially and otherwise, was when the Democrat was president. Go figure.

[saracat]

4. I agree, but I am fearful we may be finished. I hope not but

if there is a god, god help us.

[Tweed]

5. Good post

Deserves a kick, you said it all