Someone Please Tell Me That Pukes Aren't Making A Comeback

[Cary]

It is all just puke noise. Right? Their perverse and dead ideology isn't making any new inroads and they're still a dying demographic. Please tell me.

[saltpoint]

1. For them to stage a comeback they have to have someone to stage a

comeback with.

If you want somebody to paint the garage, they're going to need some paint, a brush, and a garage.

[WeDidIt]

2. They'e coming back big time

They just won a major victory with Van Jones and will win an even bigger vicotry when a sham of a health care reform bill gets passed because ti will line the pockets of their biggest supporters.

[movonne]

10. You are really in a bad mood today....

[WeDidIt]

16. Let's see...

I woke up to find out the Obama adminsitration capitulated to an ignorant assed radio talk show host who is losing advertisers hand over fist when they could ahve weathered it just fine.

That put me in a foul mood.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. It's not that the Repubs are making a comeback

it's that the Dems are shooting themselves in their collective feet and the Repubs are the natural beneficiaries of that. Hard to say how large or small the actual gain will be.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Regarding shooting them selves in the collective feet and thereby naturally benefiting

the Republicans, I believe the Hollies said it best in describing those Dems' concern for a Republican resurgence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HPqi5uVeo

[peace frog]

14. Exactly

Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on damn near every issue. I can only conclude that they don't know what to do with power once they have won it. Out of fear of criticism or reprisal, they are reluctant to govern as they were elected to do. Then when they lose, we all lose, as the whip-wielding authoritarians who DO know how to use power (to our everlasting detriment) take the lead once again.

[demosincebirth]

26. The have been known to do that a lot in the last 20-30 years.

We have the football and driving to the goal line, then fumble every time...sigh.

[mitchtv]

25. the Dems are surrendering their advantage

they're scared as usual

[ipaint]

4. Don't forget education.

Neo liberals are the new progressives.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6448407

[DJ13]

5. They arent staging a comeback with the public at large

But yes, they seem to have the MSM in their back pockets.

Hasnt helped them, and its actually damaging the MSM with the public, so the MSM will eventually have to stop being their mouthpiece if they dont want to see further erosion in viewers.

[d_b]

6. Meh. I wouldn't worry about it yet

It's just been a crazy month, politically. But if this trend keeps up for the next few months or so then yea, they're on their way.

[Warpy]

7. Their numbers continue to shrink as the screamers turn people off

The one hope for a revival is if they manage to block health insurance reform, something I really doubt they'll be able to do. I've been wrong before, though, and this is a huge issue and the Senate is overstuffed with conservatives.

If the Democrats do wimp out and fail us, disgusted Democratic voters will stay home in 2010, giving the GOP the dying gasp of a majority.

[elocs]

8. Dems who believe freeperism is dead or cannot make a comeback do so at their own peril.

Because when the Dems have them down, hold the White House and good majorities in Congress they still cower and act like wimps. There will always be a chance for a freeper comeback under those circumstances.

[abq e streeter]

17. I wish I didn't agree with you, but you're absolutely right

We dismiss them as no longer being a serious threat at our own peril.

[saltpoint]

9. A comeback would have to come with a broader context than the one

the Republicans have established for themselves.

They've gotten some mileage out of their unholy alliance with the nutbag fundies but now it has come around and nipped them in the hindquarters.

Ouch! cry the Republicans.

They bet on the wrong horse on stem cell science, on gay marriage, and of course on the mindless presidency of George W. Bush.

Obama's team boasts several heavy hitters. I'm not seeing the GOP rebounding against it in 2012.

[abq e streeter]

11. Ok, I'll tell you, but I'll be lying

The Democrats are bringing their comeback right to em on a silver platter. I think the forecasts of significant republican gains in 2010 will happen and I wouldn't be surprised to see a repub president in 2012.Many "independents" etc are seeing ( accurately , unfortunately) a Democratic Party that seems disorganized at best, and not really standing together for much of anything, or for that matter, just plain standing for much of anything. Our DLC-led spinelessness will come back to bite us once again, and their ( the blue dogs, Rahm etc) interpretation of it will be that we STILL haven't moved close enough to being republican-lite.

[Johonny]

13. Well the Jon Birch Society was openly displaying

at my local fair this weekend. Their booth was right next the Republican booth. So as long as the insane control that party I think it's going to be hard for them to "comeback".

[and-justice-for-all]

15. Every time they open their mouth, it buries them deeper in the shit..

their base are bigoted hardcore conspiracy nuts who are on the brink of mass insanity, comeback you ask?? I do not see that happening anytime soon.

They already work against the majority of the population and they themselves are a minority, which they have always been.

[Rex]

18. No prob; they are not making a comeback, just the opposite.

Repukes are so stupid that they think the masses can be fooled while the image and taste of their bullfuckery over the last 8 years still burns holes in wallets and minds alike. They are epically moranic and doomed to fail for at least the next 20 years.

No, no, the GOP is just doing the slow dying rollover on the sidewalk of life.

[opihimoimoi]

19. The PUKEs wanna make this Nation into a THEORACRACY...where some idiots

pretend they noes what God wants for us...

PURE and SIMPLE

THE GOP wants us to embrace religion in our Gov't....

The Pukes gonna be suprised....

[Gman2]

20. Are you riled up? Angry? Ready to throw dukes? GOOD!

We have been hogtied now for too long. And chomping at the bit. When we are untied, and still hot as hell, then we will see.

[customerserviceguy]

21. It depends.

I can only predict two things: Politics will continue to be polarizing in this country, and the mushy middle will vote for which ever side makes them less uncomfortable.

It's all a matter of who is the most shrill.

[OHdem10]

22. Charlie Cooke: While Dems are losing ground, the people are

not moving to the GOP yet.

This should warn our Party about trying to go to far right.

There is time to woo them back.

[madville]

23. Repubs don't have to comeback

The democrat voters just have to not show up at the polls. The repubs still have their base, the Democrats may piss off the independents and their base though and they could stay home.

[Jazzgirl]

24. I don't think the pukes are making a comeback at all.

I think they just get more attention paid to them. Why Van Jones capitulated to asshole Beck's filth I will never understand. He should've stayed. Any puke would have.

[morningglory]

27. Grab a-hold of yourself, Cary! Slap! Slap!

We won the last 5 presidential elections, including getting a black man elected. When Clinton ran against Bob Dole, I was living in an old liberal precinct that had voted Dem since FDR. Small "town", fishing village type place. Always able to walk into the polls, sign, and vote in 15 minutes. That time, I could not stand in line any longer, and went home without voting, as did many. My husband waited in line 3 1/2 hours to vote for Clinton. "Not enough voting machines." All of a sudden. Not enough voting machines for our little precinct. We are located between the bay and 2 bayous, so there is no population explosion. The old people who lived on the water depended on the water for their living and were not going to sell to developers. No population change. Not enough voting machines all of a sudden. The republics have been stealing votes for years. I am sure Dems have done some stealing, but not as a planned national-election strategy. Little local sheriffs did the stealing here and there, I am sure. during this time we increased the congressional seats. So, I say no worry.

[Dappleganger]

28. The only way to fight the repukes is with ANSWERS

They may win small battles here and there, but until they come up with some clear-cut answers to the US problems they will remain a minority for a very long time. So far all they do is show up with a large space between their ears and shiny guns.

[SoCalDem]

29. Media wants the tussle, so of course republicans are being "revived"

republican-conservatism is the "default", because of 35+ years of the media takeovers, and massive deregulation..
every so often when they screw up big-time (like every time they are in office)and lose power for a while, the media feels compelled to "re-set" to the default, and to try to help them get out their message..

Our message?..no matter... we are the "counter-culture"..the off-key little buddy, whose voice does not matter, whose ideas are way-far-out lefty nonsense..

[Spazito]

30. Have you seen their poll numbers?

They are NOT making a comeback, they are reduced to the basest of the base; birfers, turfers and teabaggers.

[RobinA]

31. OK

The pukes aren't making a comeback. Tales of their demise have been greatly exaggerated.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. Have they started polling above 20-30% yet?

If not (and that continues), then I think that it can safely be said that, no, they're not. Don't let all of the polls that the corporate media whores are pushing get you down. They.have.an.agenda. Even if things can legitimately be said to be looking "bleak" for Obama and the Democrats right now, the polling isn't exactly delivering a lot of good news for the Pubs either. Once this whole health care reform effort yields fruit and the economy appears to improve, which it already seems to be doing to some extent, I can't think of anything that the Pubs can really run on that will galvanize the people to want to give them control of Congress like back in 1994. Anyway, the country's already given them 12 years in complete control of Congress, 8 years of control of the WH, and 6 years where they were in complete control of both and, well, we all know how well THAT turned out.

[Toasterlad]

33. Of Course They Are.

Even assuming you believe there really ARE two separate parties in this country, any sane person would have to conclude, given the behavior of the Democrats for the past seven months, that they are just treading water while they wait for the Republicans to regroup and take control of the country.

[theorys]

34. Or it didn't happen

Or it didn't happen

[Jennicut]

35. No, the longterm demographics of this country mean they won't make a huge comeback

for some time. Their voting base is getting older, staying whiter, and getting smaller.
They are polling at 20% approval. Obama is way better in the 50 to 55% range.
They could pick up 10 to 12 House seats at the most...they would need over 40 to take back the House. Most of the time the party with Presidents in the WH lose seats.