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Kana -> RE: Questions We Really Want To See Asked (2/18/2012 11:39:19 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
I'd like to ask both party leaders, "Where do you see your party moving toward, and how are you addressing that?"
The Dems have no clue, and just let their party drift, while the GOP is actively ripping their own party apart.
Grins
Funny stuff.
When I worked at the Capital a decade or so ago, a running joke was that the biggest difference between the two parties was that Republicans knew who and what they were (Conservative, Reagan values etc...), Dems knew who and what they weren't...Republicans.
Which, generality though it was, was actually a pretty accurate portrayal of the parties.
That's all gone now. The Republicans have splintered and lost their identity in doing so, split between the Tea Party types, the Far Right, the Christian Conservatives, and the Neo-Cons, just to name a few.
They've lost their unified identity...and until they regain it (Most likely via a real leader emerging from the pack ala Ronnie), they are gonna have problems.
As for the Dems, they have their same old issue. They have to be all things to all people in their voting blocks, which makes things difficult because there are so many sub-agendas-it prevents the party cohering around a single identity and instead leaves them a hodgepodge of ideals.
To say that they let their party drift is a misnomer. It would be more accurate to say that they stood against something, which is not the same as having self definition.
Obama looked to be the leader to guide em into the future, but can anyone say who and what he stands for in two quick sentences or less. Can you pin him down on anything that will direct the future vision of the party, a defining goal or agenda?
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