We all saw this coming. The Democratic Party is once again using the "race card" to help Obama win the election. He can't run on his record because he is a failure. So he is running away from his record. His policies have been disastrous. He is also facing the lowest pre-election approval poll numbers in decades. Romney is slowly catching up to Obama in many polls. He has taken the lead in some of them. Some of the swing states are moving in Romney's favor. Romney also leads among independent voters and is closing the gender gap with women. As for undecided voters, they tend to go for the challenger. That would be Romney.

All of this spells trouble for the Democratic Party. Obama is not the Democrat's only concern. If Obama does poorly in the election, he could be a drag on the ticket. In other words, he could drag other candidates down with him. Candidates for Congress, Governor and other state or local offices could be adversely affected by Obama's lack of popularity. Not even Obama Girl can help him now.

For this reason the Democrats are once again playing the "race card". They are pinning their electoral hopes on minority anger and white guilt. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. That's how the left operates. When all else fails, play the "race card". It has gotten worse. How much worse? A lot worse. Campaign buttons and T-shirts with the slogan "once you vote black, you never go back" are openly being sold by street vendors. They are also being worn by Democratic delegates on the convention floor in Charlotte. Then there is the ugly and racist demagoguery of Obama surrogates like Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas. Lucas has been ranting on black radio stations in an attempt to get blacks to the polls this November. Obama needs the black vote. This strategy could backfire because white voters may feel alienated. There are already signs of that happening. His support among white women and white working class voters has dropped significantly. The Democrats may want to rethink their strategy. :-? What do you think?

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As long as poorly educated, low income whites like you are stupid enough to vote against your economic interests by voting Republican, the Democrats need to get their votes where they can find them.

 

They are being sold by street vendors, NOT the Obama campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if they were printed up by someone connected to the GOP.

 

During the 1972 presidential primary Richard Nixon realized that Edmund Muskie was the Democrat who was most likely to defeat him in the general election, so his dirty tricks group set out to destroy Muskie.

One of the things they did was to counterfeit Muskie campaign stationery, and send letters to trade unionists urging them to vote for Muskie because of the work he had done to achieve equal rights for homosexuals.

This put Muskie in quite a bind. Homosexuals were an important Democratic constituency. So were trade unionists. Nevertheless, back then there was more intolerance toward homosexuals than there is now, and blue collar workers tended to dislike them.

If Muskie did nothing, he would lose the votes of trade unionists. If he said that his campaign had not sent the letters he would lose the votes of homosexuals. If I remember correctly he pointed out that he had not sent the letters.

Nixon's dirty tricks campaign was successful. George McGovern won the primary, and lost the general election in a landslide.

 

Okay

Yeah, maybe you are right. Maybe I should support the Democratic Party. Even though they don't respect me as a human being. I should stop being so stupid and vote for the party of inclusion. The Democratic Party welcomes everyone. Everyone except white people, men, heterosexuals, Christians, gun owners, southerners and patriots. I'm sure that I left out some people.

 

You did; ISRAELI'S from Israel.

 

Come on!

Why are they being worn by Democratic delegates on the convention floor in Charlotte? Are the Democratic delegates working for the GOP? Come on! Why haven't party officials denounced this? I haven't heard a peep out of them.

 

How does the Democratic Party not respect you as a human being? How does it not welcome you?

If you do not have health coverage at work, and I believe that most retail sales clerks do not, you will benefit from the President's health plan.

 

What? If this is an attempt at humor you're failing. Did you read what you wrote? Whites? Men? Heteros?

Get your facts straight. If this were a female lesbian african american party then you would see different people on the podium together.

 

A white heterosexual male who complains that the Democratic Party does not respect him is really complaining that the Democratic Party is not in favor of white, heterosexual males supremacy.

It is not enough to be a white heterosexual male any more. One needs to perform. I am against affirmative action. Nevertheless, for every low income white man who was denied a better job because of affirmative action, there are probably three or four who simply lack the talent to be successful. They use affirmative action as an alibi, the way many blacks use white racism as an alibi.

 

The Democrats are extremists.

They clearly don't like people who are not members of a "protected class". Their whole political philosophy is based on "social justice". In other words, making other people pay. What kind of people? Those people who have succeeded in America. It makes no difference if they succeeded through hard work and merit or not. If you are not what they consider to be a "victim of an unjust society" you are evil. The left believes that America is a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist and Eurocentric society. It clearly is not. The Democrats are so intolerant that they wanted to keep God out of the party platform. They changed their minds when their own delegates complained. There is no question that the Democratic party is extreme.

 

Pretty much.

 

Since 1980 the Republicans have moved further to the right.

Your description of the Democratic Party is a bizarre distortion, and an example of the straw man fallacy. Bill and Hillary Clinton are obviously not victims. They have obviously succeeded. What evidence do you have that the Democrats think they are evil?

It probably is true that most Republicans and Democrats admire different kinds of success. The ideal Republican built a successful business out of a shoe box. The ideal Democrat distinguished himself or herself at elite universities, and went on to a prestigious career.

 

Right while I'm completely offended by the campaign slogan...
I'm going to consider myself a Jacksonian Democrat...
And the government in general is entirely too invasive to make me happy...

 

So it's against my economic interests to vote against the government running up a massive debt on programs that clearly don't work (gee, it must be because we haven't spent enough money on them!) but hiding it in deficit spending so that I won't be stuck with the bill until those responsible have retired?

Putting economics and Democrats in the same sentence automatically results in MASSIVE FAIL! Has not a single one of them taken a personal finance class in their entire life? Rule #1 of finance is you don't spend more than you take in.

To be fair, the Republicans are not much better. But at least they pay lip service to the idea of fiscal responsibility. I'd rather vote for the guy who at least claims he wants to get the spending under control than the guy who, when asks how he's going to fund these massive spending programs, stares at you like a deer caught in the headlights, as if the concept of paying for what you use has never occurred to him.

 

From the administration of Harry Truman to that of Jimmy Carter the national debt as a percentage of gross domestic product was paid down. It was paid down during recessions, and during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. It was only when the Republicans began to reduce the top tax rate that the national debt began to grow.

*not_secure_link*www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213

*not_secure_link*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

 

I would suggest one of you that are in Obama's flock go do some fact checking and blow this up cause I don't really care...

It would not surprise if it is true...

The party that wants to share everything...50K for each to get back to zero..

 

Romney was born on third base, but after he crosses home plate, he tries to convince anyone who will listen that he hit a home run. Romney simply lacks the balls to run this country. No, it isn't because he is afraid to release several years of tax returns like real Presidential candidates do. When Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts, he lobbied pro-abortion groups for their support by telling them that they needed his voice in the Republican party. Romney also has the chutzpah to babble about eliminating Obamacare as soon as he reaches office. Nevermind the fact that Obamacare is based on Romney's own healthcare plan when Romney was Governor, but does Romney think he is being elected King of America if he wins the election? The worthless Republican run House of Representatives has voted over 30 times to repeal Obamacare, but it hasn't happened. Why does Romney say dumb shit like he will overturn Obamacare on Day One after he is elected President when he knows that he can't? Because Romney knows how to appeal to his uneducated base.

Anyone under the age of 55 will get raped by Ryan's feeble voucher program to eliminate Medicare. The insurance companies will laugh until the wet their pants if Ryan's voucher program happens. No problem for Ryan. His fat Congressional pension will make sure he stays golden, so he doesn't need to give a shit about the peasants. Notice that Ryan offers zero cuts to the Defense budget, so government welfare for the military industrial complex will continue just as it has under Obama.

Romney turned 65 this year.
I have no doubt that Romney is signed up for Medicare and cashing Social Security checks.
Sure, Romney has a quarter of a billion dollars in personal assets, but I am sure he feels he is entitled to government programs too

I have always been an Independent since I first registered to vote, but I can say with certainty that it looks like it will be a very long time before I vote for a Republican for anything.

 

Or where they can buy them.

 

Wrong again DL.

The Republican party has moved further to the right. It's a response to the Democratic Party moving further to left. Both political parties have moved further apart. That's just how it is.

My description of the Democratic party is fairly accurate. If you are not like them or don't agree with their political or social views, you are considered to be evil. It's interesting that you use the Clintons as an example. We all know that the Democratic Party threw the Clintons under the bus during the 2008 election. Their only sin, opposing Obama. For that reason they were both vilified by their own party. They were called racist and pressure was put on Hillary to drop out of the Presidential race. It got very ugly. So ugly that Hillary Clinton cried at a public campaign event in New Hampshire. In a party where race trumps gender, no one is safe. Not even one of their own.

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Yes, there are successful people in the Democratic Party. They are highly educated and wealthy elitists. Many of them have degrees from Ivy league Universities. They are very dismissive of working class people like myself. They consider us to be uneducated, unsophisticated and low class. In other words "white trash". They believe that we are too stupid to think for ourselves or manage our own lives. They believe that the government needs to step in and think for us.

One more thing DL. You keep bringing up the issue of health care. You are wrong about Obama's health care plan. Having the government force me to purchase health insurance is not helpful. Neither is imposing a tax on me if I am unable or unwilling to purchase private health insurance.