Dammit, when I cast my vote, it will be based on the content of character and an assessment of principles and policies. Skin color will not be a factor.
That was the biggest thing that MLK got right but the one that is ignored universally by the left. Identity politics is racist by definition and yet they live for it.
But...let's get this thread back on track. That is, let's take a look at
Democrat recalcitrance writ large:[/b]
“I do not believe what happened the other night is a wave,” Pelosi said in her first sit-down interview since Democrats lost a dozen House seats to Republicans on Nov. 4. “There was no wave of approval for the Republicans. I wish them congratulations, they won the election, but there was no wave of approval for anybody. There was an ebbing, an ebb tide, for us.”
That quote, of course, belongs to Madame Skeletor, proud ruler of the now even more minor minority party in the House. What the hag is saying is that the election wasn't a glass half full for the Republicans but rather a glass half empty for the Democrats which means...wait for it...not really a defeat at all! No, it was an ebbing, dammit! And ebbings are better than waves. Ebbings trump waves every time!
So...where do we go from here? Why, straight up Delusion Drive and then a quick turn into the Cray-Cray cul-de-sac before checking into the Hotel California...
Pelosi’s take on the midterms is this: It wasn’t a Republican wave, her party’s message is fine and while President Barack Obama thinks Democrats need to play better politics, she believes Democrats just need to better engage voters.
Yep. Truly inspirational. According to
Old Nancy, the Democrats (and similar thinking independents) have an "engagement" problem. Those darned voters just won't engage. If only they could whip them or hit them with sticks or something. Sure sucks when your voters' best attribute (that they are too stupid to see how they are being conned) turns out to also be their worst attribute (too stupid to turn off the television and go vote like they are told).
So, what to do, what to do? Of course,
gather your flying monkeys around you and write a decree or a sternly worded memo to let the troops know that even though she has witlessly guided them to utter destruction, it could have been much worse and that they all need to support her again for a leadership position.
On Nov. 4, as the Election Day drubbing for Democrats unfolded, Pelosi gathered with a small group of supporters and staffers at Rep. Chellie Pingree’s (D-Maine) home on Capitol Hill to watch the results. Attendees described the event as “somber” and “downbeat.” Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel of New York talked about turnout and the party’s effort to defend all incumbents — unlike when in 2010 the DCCC had to cut off some vulnerable members because of stretched resources.
By the time she left the event at 11 p.m., a number of high-profile Democrats in California and New York were in tight — and unexpected — battles for their careers.
Flanked by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), her husband and Democratic staffers, Pelosi went back to the DCCC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. By 1 a.m., when races across the country were still turning against Democrats, Pelosi began drafting a letter to colleagues, asking for their support as minority leader. At the center of her pitch was the voter engagement drive.
Pelosi argues that House Democrats aren’t getting enough credit for preventing a total rout. Compared with losses in the Senate, the losses among incumbent House Democrats were better than expected, she says.
Now all that's left is to hop on her broom and sky write "Surrender Republicans!" above the Capitol dome. Bottom line is that this so-called (and as yet, utterly fictional) policy and strategy review is going nowhere when you have bonafide nut cases in charge who cannot admit that there is a fundamental problem with the party.
And that's good news, really. I'm totally satisfied that the Democrats are, even now, unwilling to admit that they even
struck the iceberg an hour or so ago, let alone give any notice at all that the ship is beginning to list at an ever increasing angle. There are still quite a few that need to ride the thing to the bottom of the ocean and sleep with the fishes. The Democrats need to pay a very, very severe price for what they have done to this country and I'm happy to see it happen.
