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Originally posted by Matrix Rising
One of the strengths of the Obama message was generational change. He was just a big government liberal but he put a new, young face on it. This is why I said John McCain was the worst candidate Republicans could nominate to go against Obama.
It's funny how the tables have turned. Republicans have the young guns like Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan. They have young , smart and attractive women like Haley and Kristi Noem. They have blacks and Cuban Americans like Marco Rubio.
The Democrats have the same over the hill gang. Pelosi, Reid, Clyburn, Barney Frank, Charles Rangel, Stenny Hoyer. These are the same old faces saying the same old things.
If the Democrats go into 2012 with Pelosi and Reid as the face of the party, they will lose the White House, the Senate and the State House will be entriched with Republican control for years.
edit on 8-11-2010 by Matrix Rising because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by BuffaloJoe
reply to post by buddhasystem
The way it is now (one party running the senate and one running the house) is the best arrangement we could hope for at this time. Each party has to have equal pull in order to have a chance in hell of representing all types of people. In fact, I'd like to see a law that specifically prohibited any party from controlling both the house and the senate.
Alot of us don;'t agree liberal ideas are "forward" ( as in a positive direction) only you guys do without question.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
The way I see it, at least the Democrats tried and actually did SOMETHING, as opposed to Republicans who did, well, NOTHING, in the face of a historic crisis. Further, the Repubs have zero in way of ideas how to move forward. See Douthat's article in today's paper. Chanting "we don't like big govt" does get not lots of things done, believe it or not.