Reply #24: Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment [View All]

[wyldwolf]

From an old article: (heavily snipped here) Some folks here should read it and take it to heart.

Apparently, General Wesley Clark is making other big-name Democratic candidates for President nervous. How else to explain their recent attacks on Clark...

Last week at the Democratic Presidential debate in Phoenix, the attacks intensified and Clark defended himself, stating, "things have changed radically since 2001." Among other changes Clark points out, we've gone from huge budget surpluses to huge deficits, we've suffered the 9/11 attacks, and now we're in the midst of a poorly planned and conceptualized post-war strategy in Iraq. To all this, Clark expressed the feelings of many Americans when he said he was "very, very disappointed with how and this administration have led this country." Finally, Clark described how, in his travels around the country, he was getting "tremendous response, response from Democrats, independents, people who've never been engaged in politics and Republicans who are looking to us, to me, for a new vision and new leadership to take this country forward." Isn't that exactly what the Democratic Party should want?

Apparently not, as the ad hominem attacks on General Clark... are not simply isolated events. These types of attacks, which we'll call the "Democratic Party Moral Purity and Political Correctness Test" are major reasons why the Democrats have gone from the majority party in this country to one that controls zero branches of government - executive, legislative, or judicial. As the joke goes, when Democrats organize a firing squad, the first thing they do is form a circle. Or, as Will Rogers quipped back in the 1930s, "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Perhaps it's time for the Democrats, as they scrape themselves off the dirt floor where they live at the moment, to take a few lessons from the Republicans. First, fight for what you believe in. Second, fight against what you do not believe in. Third, really and truly stand for something. And fourth, apply Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment -- "Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican" -- to your own party for a change, instead of forming the usual, infamous Democratic circular firing squad.

http://www.dailygusto.com/news/october/democrats-101503.html