Lovesick Mehlman Pines for Democratic Party

[Rose Siding]

Aha. The old dewey eyed nostalgia strategy.

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It was a Democrat President, Harry Truman, who said in 1947 that "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

A decade and a half later, in the thick of the Cold War, it was another Democrat, John F. Kennedy, who said "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
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Ronald Reagan used to say, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me."

He saw the beginning of the end, as a Party that had vowed to fight Communism became a Party that set itself against those who fought Communism.
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Today's Democrat Party is the Party of George Soros, a man who said "By declaring a 'war on terror' after September the 11th, we set the wrong agenda for the world," not JFK, a man who said "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Today's Democrat party is the Party of Ted Kennedy, who said "The U.S. military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution," not FDR, a man who said "We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70472

Okay, one: Damn straight Democrats will "freedom in its hour of maximum danger", and Congressional investigations after a mid-term victory is the first step. Oh, wait. Kenny thinks that dying in Iraq's civil war impacts our freedom somehow.

Notice how the Bad Democrats belong to the "Democrat party" instead of the "Democratic party" -clearly a childishly intentional slur.

He practically endorses Joe.

[MissWaverly]

1. I am so sick of them using our leaders to excuse their idiocy

We went to war with Iraq, why???? We did not have the support of the UN, why???? To cherry
pick statements to endorse your failed policies that have alienated us around the globe
and to defend the bloody mess that is our failed initiative in Iraq is ludicrous. Run on your
record, defend your policies, your speeches, your initiatives, defend Iraq, defend Katrina,
if you can.

[kurth]

2. Hmmm... He should be talking about the Republican Party

fiscal responsibility, limited government, the Bill of Rights, no foreign wars, no nation building, and all that bullshit.

[MissWaverly]

4. they never talk about issues, 2004 was all about Kerry

and how Bush was your friend, not about Iraq or the Patriot Act, or rendition or any number
of issues which should have been hotly debated.

[Rose Siding]

8. It's the GOP projection strategy- peg your opponent with your own failings

He feigns concern for dems being divided, and simultaneously advises GOP candidates not to defend Bush as they run from him at every opportunity. AND, this very same thing -defeat for a DC "moderate" in a primary- happened yesterday to a Republican incumbant.

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So, it turns out that Michigan had its own little centrist-incumbent-felled-by-activist-wing-of-its-party-in-the-primary thing going last night. Joe Schwarz, a moderate Republican, currently represents the 7th district, which includes the city of Battle Creek and thus America’s strategic breakfast-cereal manufacturing facilities, but he was felled by right-wing challenger Tim Walberg. There are many potential reasons why the liberal media seems to have no interest in this story while it’s slobbering all over Lieberman’s defeat: Schwarz is a lowly Representative, not a Senator; he has no harebrained schemes of running as an independent; he was only a one-term incumbent; and he was never his party’s vice presidential candidate.

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/blogs/republicans-can-eat-their-own-without-your-fancy-internet-thank-you-very-much-193072.php

[Greeby]

3. If Jack Kennedy was alive today, these guys would kill him nt

[kwolf68]

5. Hello you asswhipe

On behalf of my fellow Democrats, I’d like to say to Ken Mehlman and the Republican talking heads/fiends/freaks and fools:

Thank you for your concern over the Democratic Party, but please STFU and go away. We don’t need your anguish over the “demise” of our party.

Why do you even care? Joe Leiberman is the same man who you ridiculed in 2000. In truth Mr Republican, you didn’t care about Holy Joe back in 2000 and you don’t care about him now. The Democratic Party primary last night was and is not any of your concern (at least until you run against the winner of that primary this November). NO, this just gives you gasbags another chance to define and marginalize the Democratic Party. We Democrats aren’t shocked, surprised, or worried. This is one of your most used plays. It’s been run to death and we now can see and defend against it.

We realize you will now start saying how the “far left” has taken over the Party. Isn’t that what you said when Nancy Pelosi was named Minority Leader? Isn’t that what you said when Bill Clinton was elected? No matter what we do, we will always be “taken over by the far left”. Defining the Democratic Party as “extremists”, “terrorists”, “anti-American” you hope will inspire the foolish masses to rally behind your despicable corporate agenda.

Mr. Lamont won last night, because people in a free society exercised their democratic voice. That’s how it works. The only thing more explicit than your tired usage of propaganda is your utter contempt for the will of the people.

[jobycom]

6. Kenny is too soulless to grasp that Truman was fighting against HIM

"It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." That's exactly what the Iraqis are doing, and yet Mehlman is supporting the armed minorities and the outside pressures. The difference between Truman, JFK, FDR, et al and BushCo is that these brilliant Democrats wouldn't have gotten us into Iraq in the first place. JFK was trying to get us out of Viet Nam when he was shot, exactly because of the ENTIRELY CONSISTENT belief that "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."


SOme people aren't good enough to be Americans. We need to ship them off the Greenland and let them set up their on own country on the remains. Call it "The Republic of Dumbfucks and Soulless Beasts." We might have to move all the Yaks, though. They are far too noble to be forced to live with these animals.

[TayTay]

7. About that JFK Quote

"we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Who is paying this price? Certainly not the chicken-hawk bastards who insist that tax cuts for the rich come before anything else. (Tom Delay said this, back when he ran the House of Reps like a dictatorship.) The ones who are being asked to 'Bear any burden, meet any hardship" are not the people like Mehlman who speak for a Party that doesn't give soldiers enough body armor to protect themselves, doesn't vote for a Bankruptcy Bill provision that would prevent creditors from seizing the homes of active duty troops while they are away at war and so forth.

Mehlman is a despicable bastard. His 'burdens' fall disproportionately on the few and he asks nothing of the Repub base 'the Haves and the Have Mores' that could help this country to actually help fund a real war on the causes of terrorism in the world.

[obreaslan]

9. "Democrat" Party? Never Heard of it......

Kenny should check his facts, the people he quoted belonged to the Democratic Party. I would take issue with what he said if he was talking about the Democratic Party, but since he speaks of a non-exisitanc Deomocrat Party, I ignore him. :grr:

[OzarkDem]

10. JFK and Harry T

would both tell Mehlman to go take a flying leap and tell him to run his candidates on their own GOP record instead of them trying to pretend like they're Dems.

What a state of affairs. Ten years ago, Dems were trying to sound like GOP-lite to get elected; now the GOP is trying to sound like Democrats. What's next, the RLC?