Democratic Delusions

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Democratic-Delusions-by-Brent-Budowsky-100510-486.html

Call me the Paul Revere of a Democratic Party that now faces extreme peril in the 2010 elections.

President Barack Obama and insider Democrats are violating the cardinal rule that has governed midterm elections for 200 years. Midterm elections are won by the party that turns out its base and lost by the party that doesn't.

The base for Democrats is the coalition of voters who supported the party in 2006 and 2008. This includes working-class voters of all races, liberals who thought they elected a president in the tradition of FDR and JFK, moderate independents revolted by the corruptions of the financial crash, young people and first-time voters who surged to the polls for change and minorities who voted for economic justice and opportunity.

:snip:

Democrats have fallen victim to a lobbyist-industrial complex, as dangerous as the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned the nation against. Campaign money has corrupted the change that voters elected Democrats to bring.

More at the link --

[and-justice-for-all]

1. "...faces extreme peril in the 2010 elections...."

:eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Article mentions FDR, but FDR got crushed in his second midterm.

It shut down his New Deal program.

[Warpy]

4. Right, they forced a balanced budget

and prolonged the Depression until war production finally ended it.

[ProSense]

3. "Call me the Paul Revere of a Democratic Party that now faces extreme peril in the 2010 elections"

We're doomed.

[berni_mccoy]

7. Doooooooooooooooomed!

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:rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

9. blue version of freepers

:rofl:

[spanone]

5. don't we have a comedy forum????

[zipplewrath]

6. ya know most years I might agree

But I've never seen a GOP in quite this level of meltdown. Fox News may just be their undoing.

[jpak]

8. teh bad obama!

dems are dooooomed!!1

:D

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. I guess the author hopes if it's repeated enough, it'll come true?

Hyperbole aside, I think everyone has conceded that we'll lose seats, but it's a midterm. A midterm in an economic downturn. It's a throw all the bums out midterm. Traditionally, old folks vote in midterms. Nothing new.