Comments on: Red/Blue Split In The Democratic Party https://barelyablog.com/redblue-split-in-the-democratic-party/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/redblue-split-in-the-democratic-party/comment-page-1/#comment-3102 Mon, 12 May 2008 07:09:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=628#comment-3102 This is nothing new whatsoever. There were George Wallace Democrats, Democrats for Nixon,
“Archie Bunker” hardhats, Reagan Democrats, social conservative Democrats, … always have been – especially in areas where the local politics is Democratic. Many of them will vote for McCain.

It will still be an amazing feat if the Republicans can retain the Presidency in spite of 8 years of war, spending orgies, inflation, incompetence, etc. My favorite chutzpah statement was Laura Bush (last week) berating Burma for their incompetent response to a tropical cyclone (hurricane). Perhaps she should have said, “Than Shwe, you’re doing a hell of a job”.

Anyway, the Democrats have generally had trouble winning the Presidency. Only 3 Democrats in history ever won with over 51% of the vote – Jackson, FDR, and LBJ.

I guess since Bill Clinton governed as a centrist, the conservative democrats fear Hillary less than Barry Hussein Obama.

The combo of McCain and a Democratic Congress, however, may be the continuation of the War (Mc Cain’s # 1 cause) WITH additional socialistic programs domestically.

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By: Steven Stip https://barelyablog.com/redblue-split-in-the-democratic-party/comment-page-1/#comment-3096 Mon, 12 May 2008 01:44:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=628#comment-3096 It is a good thing I can write in Ron Paul’s name this November and maybe affect the outcome in 2012. I am anti-war which would make me “blue” but pro-gun which would make me “red”. I guess I am “purple”, combining the best of both sides.

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By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/redblue-split-in-the-democratic-party/comment-page-1/#comment-3094 Mon, 12 May 2008 01:30:22 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=628#comment-3094 “Conservative” Democrats? Has media become THAT dishonest with the way it uses terminology? Was Schneider (who seems to love dumbing the news down into dichotomies with every chance he gets) concerned that the word “populist” was too smart for his audience? Because that would be the appropriate term.

Gun owning Democrats for Clinton? How completely blind do you have to be to ignore that Clinton is the candidate most likely to end all remaining gun rights? In my judgment social democrats (small or large “d”) are almost ubiquitously people that hold fundamental fallacies about the way politics functions and what government is capable of accomplishing, so they chose the political position in this country that feels “safest” since Lincoln and certainly FDR. And such people are the primary benefactors of the God that Failed, the tool of the Gang of Thieves Writ Large.

Let’s get real: Obama’s supporters are latte-sipping kids with Che tee shirts (reading Chomsky is optional, but highly corollary). Clinton’s supporters are sub-100 IQ small-towners and soccer moms who want the government to steal your money and give it to them (and/or their ethanol farms).

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