Democrats are not a dying party! The Republican Party has died.

[fooj]

A friend from out of town was visiting today and we started talking about how Shrubco is truly an evil entity. We talked fervently about the state of our country-suddenly it occurred to me that there is no REAL Republican Party! This admins policies certainly aren't fiscally republican...everything they do is EXTREME! Where are all of the moderate repubs? Conservative repubs? These clowns running our govt. have created their OWN party while HIDING under the skirts of Republicans. It's absolutely bizarre. Forget the outrage from liberals! Where's the outrage from the conservatives? Regular, normal repubs who we love to hate? Where are they? Hell, for the most part, dems still behave like dems. However, the same cannot be said for the republicans. Shrub has destroyed his own political party! Am I making any sense here? :shrug:

[purduejake]

1. Yes.

And all the republicans and conservatives, minus one voted for Kerry. And this is Indiana. Tell me how in the hell he has a mandate.

[fooj]

2. I don't know a repub who voted for Shrub! WTF? Don't you think it is

bizarre that the Republicans have been duped by one of their own? Or so he says...

[Wilms]

3. Both the Dems and the Repubs are divided within their own party

And it's fine with me cause Dean won.

[Juan Martinez]

4. I agree...

If anything, the Democratic Party is on the up-and-up.

[SeanQuinn]

8. Welcome to DU, Juan!

:hi: I agree with you, one hundred percent. Though it seems like we are a 'dying breed' after the election, we are just going higher and higher with grassroots organization and the like.

[LittleClarkie]

5. I was talking to a Conservative yesterday

I've described him around here as the idiot who started dancing around chanting "Flip/flop/flip/flop" when he saw my Kerry button before the election. It was the most childish thing I'd ever seen a 50 year old man do.

Well, yesterday was the first time I saw him after the election. He gloated a minute, and then lamented that the country couldn't truly see how Conservatism would work for them in only 8 years. They needed something like 30 years of solidly conservative presidents to show what Conservatism could really do.

"But George Bush isn't a real Conservative" I pointed out. The government is getting bigger, not smaller. The government is sticking it's nose into states rights when it doesn't like something like assisted suicide or gay marriage.

He sort of ignored me and continued onto a Hillary rant he'd started before I made my observation. "What does Hillary have to do with the fact that Bush is not a conservative," I said, trying to drag the conversation back, but to no avail.

Thirty years of Conservatives. What a thought.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

6. I agree.

The Republican party of today goes out of its way to marginalize members of our society in order to justify themselves. They are bullies both domestically and in foreign affairs with absolutely non sense of fiscal responsibility. I do think the Democratic party has changed a bit over the years (remember busing of school children) but certainly shows more sanity today than the current GOP.

[sendero]

7. I agree..

... those who blithely think that the Dem party is dead are going to feel like they woke up in a remake of "Night of the Living Dead" in a few short years.

[applegrove]

9. It is very sociopathic to blame your victim for what you are going through

The Democratic Party is not dying - the old Republican Party has been virtually killed. They just taunt you with Democratic Party death to keep from having their paleo-conservative friends from accepting the reality that the Republican Party almost doens't exist. The point is to keep the paleocons in the dark and feeling all proud that Democrats are done in. So the paleocons do nothing to save themselves. So they do not recognize the danger. So the neocons win.

A few paleocons are speaking up eh? But as per ususal - it is always someone near retirement. Otherwise the neocons will destroy your conservative political career and the careers of your kids too.