Ideas

By Jayson ~ June 24th, 2005 @ 11:29 am

Dr. Krauthammer writes that the current version of the old Democrat Party is “a party without ideas.”

The good doctor is speaking of the new-age Democrats’ obstructionism and reflexive opposition to anything GOP or McBushitler.

But in a literal sense, there’s an important political point that his article does not address.

Modern-day, leftist Democrats most certainly do have ideas. It’s just that they can’t say them out loud and hope to come within the ship to the shore of winning elections.

This is a conservative country. Always has been. Always will be. The fact there are millions and millions of 70 to 80 year-old union trades and farm workers out there automatically voting for the label of “Democrat” — and who have been voting Democrat their whole lives! — does not mean they’re liberals. Not even close, Chomsky.

Take “universal health care,” i.e., socialized medicine. That’s sure as heck one of the left wing’s hallmark ideas, no?

Well, the very last time the left wing and their media allies openly advocated for universal health care, it was a major factor in causing their political parent company to suffer one of the most astonishing, comprehensive, and, quite frankly, ludicrous political defeats in history. The Democrat Party lost 52 net U.S. House seats in that cycle. Fifty-two House seats! And they also lost 12 net U.S. Senate seats (including two defections) and they lost what had been a huge majority of state governorships too!

Then the left — not being very grounded in reality — figured they’d just go around to “liberal states” and try to impose socialized medicine at the local levels. And that’s gone over like a . . . . lead balloon. Only a couple years ago, and just by way of example, “liberal Oregon” rejected the idea of universal health care. And it was a close call, only 79-21 in opposition thereto.

Pffttt.

And it’s not as if the V.R.W.C. duped those voters in the dead of night. That was the same election in which Oregonians elected their current governor, for Pete’s sake.

And I could go on and on. It’s not merely health care on which voters are conservative. We could conduct the same or similar analyses on: the death penalty, taxes and spending, crime and punishment measures, racial quotas, school vouchers, gun restrictions, benefits for illegal immigrants, gay marriage, and, yes, various restrictions on abortion (especially parental consent and public financing).

Look, people need to start dealing with the political realities on the ground. It’s 25 years after Carter. It’s 11 years after the ‘94 landslides.

Nervous conservative political junkies need finally to grasp the fact they run the country. And nowhere is that more germane than in the U.S. Senate.

And the far left?

It’s getting high time for them to form a third party. I mean, think about it:

What on Earth will those wing nuts do if Hillary loses in 2008???