A message to the GOP

[Algorem]

("True Father" Sun Myung Moon must be worried)

TODAY'S EDITORIAL
August 5, 2006

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060804-091358-1950r.htm

In the summer of 2000, when the congressional campaigns were heating up, Republicans held a relatively comfortable 55-45 advantage in the Senate. That July, Georgia Sen. Paul Coverdell, a former Peace Corps director and a rising star in the Republican leadership, unexpectedly died after suffering a stroke. Georgia's Democratic governor replaced him with a Democrat, and the Senate balance became 54-46. Although a few Republican incumbents faced tough challenges, on the eve of the election Republicans were expected to capture Democratic-held Senate seats in Virginia and Nevada, which they did. That meant that Democrats would have had to win seven Republican-held seats to achieve majority status.

To the surprise of many, Democrats won six of those seven races by capturing Florida's Republican-vacated open seat and ousting five Republican incumbents in Delaware, Minnesota, Washington, Michigan and Missouri. Montana's Republican Sen. Conrad Burns narrowly won re-election with 50.6 percent of the vote, setting up a 50-50 tie in the Senate but giving Republicans control by virtue of Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote.

This summer Republicans again control the Senate by a 55-45 margin. Democrats will need a net gain of six seats to capture majority status, which they briefly enjoyed for about 18 months after James Jeffords, Vermont Republican, became an independent and began caucusing with the Democrats in June 2001. In the 2002 elections, the Republican Party regained its Senate majority (51-49) and added four seats in 2004.

When an electoral wave occurs, it is usually accompanied by one party winning a disproportionately high share of the close races. As Michael Barone observed in the 2004 edition of the Almanac of American Politics, "Republicans won a majority in the Senate in 1980 because they won 11 of the 13 closest races. They lost that majority, with the same seats up, in 1986 when they lost six of the eight closest races." Six years ago, if the Democrats had prevailed in Montana, they would have won nine of the 11 closest races and control of the Senate. Winning eight of the 11 tightest races did not cut it in 2000. Six years later, the same seats are up for grabs...




Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Sun Myung Moon Calls for End to Democracy

http://adreampuppet.blogspot.com/2005/03/sun-myung-moon-calls-for-end-to.html

John Gorenfeld has a great blog dedicated to watching Sun Myung Moon, whose organization has a weird hold over extreme rightwing politics in this country. In the latest blatant outrage that is totally ignored by the MSM, we learn that Moon is finished with American democracy and is working to replace it.


Moon: Work with congressmen to "discard" democracy

The Washington Times owner's most recent of many consistent entreaties to toss democracy on the scrap-heap along with Communism:


The United States is proud of its democratic system, which carries the idea of brotherhood. She has to adopt the ideas of Parents and Godism. We have to discard relationships that resulted from the Fall...


http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html

[orwell]

1. Actually...

...Moon's abhorance of democracy makes perfect sense. That should be the true conservative position, favoring monarchy or military dictatorship (structural authoritarianism) over democracy (structural liberalism).

At least he's consistent...