Why Republicans are the party of yesterday

[luvtocook]

Brainy cities have low divorce rates, low crime, high job creation, ethnic diversity and creative capitalism. They’re places like Pittsburgh, with its top-notch universities; Albuquerque, with its surging Latino middle class; and Denver, with its outdoor-loving young people. They grow good people in the smart cities.

But in the politically suicidal greenhouse that Republicans have constructed for themselves, these cities are not welcome. They are disparaged as nests of latte-sipping weenies, alt-lifestyle types and “other” Americans, somehow inauthentic.

If that’s what Republicans want, they are doomed to be the party of yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/op...26egan.html?em

[Robyn1007]

I'm a young outdoor-loving Denverite who will be very proud to help this state go Blue.

We have a very nasty race going here between Bob Schaffer (R) and Mark Udall (D). At the end of this past week the Repulican Senatorial Campaign announced it is withdrawing it's advertising for Schaffer. I couldn't have been more delighted as it's been insulting to have them use the term "Boulder Liberal" as if it were a curse word in that advertising. Never mind that I have family that are Boulder Liberals. I continue to wonder what would possess the party to think that would be a good way to attack Udall since it attacked a large portion of the population as well.

[blazedog]

I'm a young outdoor-loving Denverite who will be very proud to help this state go Blue.

We have a very nasty race going here between Bob Schaffer (R) and Mark Udall (D). At the end of this past week the Repulican Senatorial Campaign announced it is withdrawing it's advertising for Schaffer. I couldn't have been more delighted as it's been insulting to have them use the term "Boulder Liberal" as if it were a curse word in that advertising. Never mind that I have family that are Boulder Liberals. I continue to wonder what would possess the party to think that would be a good way to attack Udall since it attacked a large portion of the population as well.

Well seriously there should be an interesting shake down of the Republican party after the election (assuming that the polls are at all accurate).

For whatever reason (thank the heavens) the population has gotten serious about examining the issues and looking behind what had been effective ways to scare people against voting for Democrats.

So the labels don't appear to be sticking -- people examine what Obama's tax policies are and realize that they would be helped and as McCain admitted in 2000 -- when he was AGAINST the Bush tax cuts, the wealthiest should pay more taxes.

You can't get away with calling Obama's plans for reforming health care "socialized" medicine --- because it isn't a single payer system -- and no one with corporate health care is the slightest bit interested in having their health benefits taxed.

I was not a supporter of Reagan -- in part because of the ridiculous notion of supply side economics -- However, compare Reagan to what is currently being disseminated by the McCain/Palin campaign.

“Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone,” said Reagan, “I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.”

[luvtocook]

“Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone,” said Reagan, “I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.”

I am also not a fan of Reagan, but loved the quote. Seems to pretty much sum up Obama's campaign to a tee.

la

Obama/Biden 2008

[blazedog]

I am also not a fan of Reagan, but loved the quote. Seems to pretty much sum up Obama's campaign to a tee.

la

Obama/Biden 2008

And the same sentiment as spoked by Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address before the cannons had fired on Fort Sumter.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

[blazedog]

I am also not a fan of Reagan, but loved the quote. Seems to pretty much sum up Obama's campaign to a tee.

la

Obama/Biden 2008

Of course the reality is that Reagan employed Lee Atwater in his administration as a political director -- and Atwater, perfected the Southern Strategy and was a mentor to Rove -- who merely perfected the strategy of Atwater.

And Reagan announced his candidacy in Philadelphia, Mississippi which was the site of the notorious murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner - the civil rights workers who were murdered in 1964. His speech on states rights also played into this since "states rights" were code language during that period for anti-civil rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[KAnn]

I'm a young outdoor-loving Denverite who will be very proud to help this state go Blue.

We have a very nasty race going here between Bob Schaffer (R) and Mark Udall (D). At the end of this past week the Repulican Senatorial Campaign announced it is withdrawing it's advertising for Schaffer. I couldn't have been more delighted as it's been insulting to have them use the term "Boulder Liberal" as if it were a curse word in that advertising...

I hadn't heard the news about the RNC Senatorial Campaign $ withdrawl, Robyn! That is good news! Mark Udall is such an excellent candidate and will be relacing one of the least effective men in the US Senate (Wayne Allard). This race hasn't been quite as ugly as the race against another outstanding Democrat, Tom Strickland, six years ago. I have lived in Colorado for the past almost 30 years now and "Boulder liberal" has always been a favorite pejorative of the GOP.

And another Udall should win a former GOP Senate seat in New Mexico as well as a great Democrat may well win the first congressional district (Albuquerque) that was razor close for the GOP two years ago.

Let's hope Colorado turns blue this year!

[mbrogier]

Wake County, NC (where I was born) is going blue this year??? Is hell freezing over???

I come from a long line of Southern Republicans. I find myself turning more purple the older I get. My parents aren't very happy with me, but I am not happy with the state of the Republican party. And as a feminist, it kills me that McCain appointed someone on the basis of their anatomy.

I hope the Republican party gets a major renovation after this election. If they don't, I man never vote Red again.