Posted by
Mick O. on Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:46:02 PM
Will they ever learn? They win the House and they put Pelosi in charge. She is inept. They win the Senate and they put Reid in charge. He is less than inept! Now they have a chance to win the presidency after 8 years of an unpopular president and who is their choice? Overwhelmingly, Mrs. Bill Clinton! Did they not learn anything after 2000?
Here was Bill Clinton leaving office with high approval ratings and who is their choice to run against Bush? The wooden Al Gore. Could anyone have less personality than him? It was the Democrats to lose and they did... big time. Now you may still be of the opinion that Al Gore really won Florida, but my point is this. No matter what you think, he should have easily been able to beat Bush.
Fast forward to 2004. Bush is highly vulnerable. The war is unpopular. He's passed a bunch of spending bills that are making Republicans angry and who do Democrats pick to run against him? John Kerry! What a gift. Four more years of Bush, thank you very much. Talk about self-destructing.
So now it's coming up on 2008. There is no Bush to run against. The field's wide open. Who is the front runner? Hillary Clinton with the highest negative ratings of anyone in the race! Even Democrats don't like her. And the kooky left wing fringe certainly aren't endorsing her, are they? So where is she getting all these votes?
In my mind, only Obama stands a chance of beating any Republican who runs. It would harken back to the days of JFK where we hardly knew what he stood for as a Senator and there he was elected President. Could be the same thing with Obama. But he has a problem... He's not black enough. What the heck does that mean anyway? He looks black to me, not that I care. I will vote or not vote for him based on what his track record is and what he is saying he will do as Commander in Chief.
It looks to me like the Democrat party has splintered so much that now it's beginning to eat its own. Anti-smokers versus dope-smoking hippies. Soccer moms versus anti-SUV Huffington-types. Even environmentalists can't agree on what our policy should or shouldn't be. But one thing's clear. With all these opposing factions, Hillary Clinton is not popular enough to pull them all together.
Can you say another 8 years of a Republican president? And who knows... maybe we'll win back the house and senate because of the Democrats chosen leaders in those two institutions. Could be an interesting election year! I'm thinking Republican landslide!