"Tom Sherman" <
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> Mark Leuck wrote:
>
> > "Tom Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >
> >>Edward Dolan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>...All the politicians will be
> >>>colored by then and go by names like Obama. God, I am so glad I will
> >
> > never
> >
> >>>live to see it. Death solves all problems, social as well as
individual.
> >>
> >>Does it bug you Mr. Dolan, that "morality nag" Keyes got trounced by the
> >>largest margin of victory ever in a Illinois US Senate race by a liberal
> >>politician? I certainly hope so. 
> >
> >
> > Alan Keyes didn't get trounced because of morality issues, he had no
chance
> > from the beginning. He was an import from the east coast because the
> > Illinois RNC couldn't find anyone else. It was moronic the way that
process
> > panned out and obvious to me he was chosen as a warm body than what his
> > views were. This is not taking anything away from Obama who is about the
> > only decent candidate the Democrats had this year[.]
> >
> > With the momentum Obama had I doubt anyone put up against him had any
chance[.]
>
> (Let the record show that Mark Leuck used periods at the end of three of
> the five sentences in his post.)
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll change that lest Ed starts complimenting
me
> And if the Democratic Party can reject the corporatist elements within
> the party and choose more candidates like Obama, they will win many more
> elections, as the Republicans rely on people staying home and not
> voting, since the Republican policies favor only a small minority of the
> population.
The leaders of the party need to quit pandering to the fringe and become
more moderate, they do much better when they don't choose the usual liberals
who then try to pass themselves off to the rest of the country as moderate.
The only success they've had in the last 25 years is by a southern democrat
who appeared moderate and even then the mainstream party leaders didn't
accept him until late in the primaries when it was obvious he'd be the end
winner. I imagine in 2008 they'll try the same thing with Hillary
I agree partly about the statement with Obama but he is another liberal,
while he does an excellent job of communications, in the end his views
aren't that much different than the other leaders in his party and he will
have the same problems they currently have, also if he doesn't toe the exact
same line as the black leadership he won't get very far which is pretty sad
in my opinion
If this last election didn't teach them that the views they've been pushing
aren't popular then they will never learn (and I'm not referring to the
presidential election)
> We can only be thankful we were spared the ridiculousness of Mike “Limp”
> Ditka running for the Senate on a platform of social intolerance.
Hard to say how Ditka, we all know his actions on a football field but I
have no clue what his political views are and I seriously doubt he would
have gone very far against Obama no matter what
