It's like watching the Wicked Witch of the West melt before your eyes

[cali]

And no, I am definitely not talking about Senator Clinton.

It's the repuke party.

It's melting.

The American people have had it. They've been fuming for years and it's becoming clear that they're taking their revenge on the party that threw us in the dumpster.

Are you beginning to get the picture?

They're saying: "Get the fuck out of here".

And with each state we'll see a continuing pattern of erosion of support for the repukes.

America is speaking loud and clear.

[aquart]

1. We wrote. We called. We told them. They didn't believe us.

They believed Karl.

[babylonsister]

2. Long past time; nice to see Americans woke up from our nightmare. nt

[Deep13]

3. boo

:thumbsdown:

[MaineDem]

7. Methinks you didn't read the entire post. n/t

[Deep13]

12. Youthinks erroneously. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Feeling sorry for Republicans?

[Deep13]

16. Sorry. You're right after all.

:banghead:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. LOL

It happens to everybody.

[livetohike]

4. I agree. Not one of the Republican candidates are better

than our entire slate of Dems. It's a pitiful bunch of hacks, imo.

I've been thinking how interesting it is that no one is making a big deal out of past military service this time around. Guess Guiliani and Romney's deferments are not a good topic to bring up. I haven't heard one talking head talking about it.

[Virginia Dare]

5. It's the economy again stupid..

and the repubs have nothing to offer the American people anymore, nothing but more war and more debt.

[Fresh_Start]

6. I'm too young to know personally

But the numbers suggests that Nixon era did the same thing. Statistics show that GOP lost 50% of its partisans during Nixons term of office. Numbers went from 32% of population GOP party affiliation down to only 21% GOP party affiliation in less than 8 years.

However it was less than 10 years later, we had Reagan and the GOP affiliation recouped its entire losses while the dem affiliation continued to sink.

Reagan following was another cult of personality.

[truedelphi]

20. And it is interesting to note, that it was during the Reagan

Run for the Presidency, that Karl Rove first came along.

Rove, a Catholic who grew up in Mormon Utah, and who was the captain of his debate team, helped Reagan with his ideas of things like "There you go again."

The Dems still need to learn this. You don't need to struggle putting a complicated idea into a one sentence catch all (unless you can, but often you can't)

Rather, it is far better to have a neuro linguistic word pattern that simply shifts EVERYTHING away from the speaker having credibility.

Carter was a brilliant man who lost heavily to Rove's word packaging once Reagan hit the podium.

[Fresh_Start]

21. Its my impression, that Reagan era

is when "personality" became the key to national political office.

I don't know if the public was anymore knowledgeable before than.
But I get the impression that people read newspapers and I remember family members discussing policies at the table.

Is that when it happened, from your perspective?

[truedelphi]

22. I think personality has always been important

And just as importantly, during the eighties the media was more and more part of the corporate power structure during the eighties.

No one media source ever really investigated why Carter, with an all time popularity in May of 1979, (over 60% I believe) had his popularity driven down by the media to 11% three months later.

The oil crisis was partly to blame. But where did that crisis come from? My own suspicians involve the Bush Crime family, and Kissinger, and the connections they held to Middle East oil suppliers.

And the oil crisis began to clear up within six months of Reagan taking office.

Hmmm.

[Carrieyazel]

8. Yeah, their melting at the Senate, House, state and local level.

But at the White House level, they always manage to snatch it. We're helping them right now with Obama, who will blow it in November.

[Alexander]

14. Will you support Obama in the General Election?

You sure don't seem optimistic about his chances.

Almost like you are looking for a reason not to vote for him.

[Carrieyazel]

26. He's unqualified in any way to be President in my opinion. He won't be able to fix the mess.

I may vote 3rd party, if I don't like our nominee.

[racaulk]

9. Yep

I guess it's hard for middle America to care about their pet social issues like abortion and marriage equality when they're having trouble making ends meet.

Amazing, isn't it?

[Maccagirl]

10. I'm praying you're right in your feelings.

I simply don't trust the American voter to choose the right person for the right time, being 51 years old and all. We simply cannot afford to screw up this time. Reagan didn't deserve to be President and Bush winning two terms was/is jawdropping. Keep your fingers crossed my fellow citizens.

[Egnever]

11. Can you immagine how Hanity Rush and company are taking this?

I actually listened to Rush for about an hour yesterday and caller after caller was dissagreeing with him I couldnt believe it.

I cant wait for these pricks to be marginalized once again.

[MercutioATC]

13. The Wicked Witch of the West didn't melt, she sublimated.

She went directly from a solid state to a gas state.

That's sublimation.


Of course, "I'm sublimating! I'm sublimating!" wouldn't have sounded the same....

[gkhouston]

23. unfortunately, the gas stank. And was toxic. n/t

[lebkuchen]

18. Bad timing, then, w/Bush's press conference

What a lost little lambchop he is.

[tex-wyo-dem]

19. The Rethuglics deserve to go the way of the Whig party...

and be voted out of power and into irrelevancy.

[robbedvoter]

24. Actually, it's been a corpse for 20 years now - animated by Diebold - ugh - Premiere

and other dirty tricks. The last national election they won - 1988

[Hekate]

25. "Who ever thought little Dems like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?"

"Ohhhhh... What a world! What a world!"
:rofl:

Hekate