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Posted at 5:58pm on May 13, 2008 Alert to MS Dems! Free Hamburgers if you vote for Childers

By Soren Dayton

Earlier today, Moe covered outright lies by the DCCC in their attend to defeat Greg Davis in today's special election in MS-1.

They have another problem. Dems are passing out free hamburgers:

If you hurry, you might get one. I would also ask if Republicans can get them too. If not, they are probably committing a crime.

H/T ElectionJournal.org

Posted in 2008 | Democratic Party | Electoral Corruption | Greg Davis | Mississippi | Travis Childers — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 12:00pm on May 6, 2008 Clinton Will Break the Democratic Party to Save It

You See, Obama has to be Cleared Away by the Hand of Hillary! like the McGovernites of Old. Now She will have to Burn this Party.

By Mark I

The Huffington Post has an update to their story of this past weekend saying that the Clinton campaign has confirmed that it plans to use a May 31st meeting of the Democratic Party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to try and seat the entire Michigan and Florida delegations at the Democratic National Convention. The Clinton campaign estimates that seating of the entire delegations from the two disputed states will give her a pledged delegate lead of around 55 delegates over Sen. Barack Obama.

In a statement released in response to the story, the campaign did not deny that it intended to exercise what the Huffington Post characterized as the "nuclear option." It only objected to the notion that the plan was a secret one.

There is no secret plan....The Clinton campaign has been vocal in stating that the votes of 2.5 million people must be respected. Hardly a day goes by when a Clinton official doesn't publicly declare that the votes of Michigan and Florida count and that the delegations from those states should be seated.

If the campaign follows through on this, it may be left to the ultimate superdelegate, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, to decide the Democratic nomination. Denver is going to be fun.

Read on…

Posted in 2008 | 2008 Presidential Campaign | Barack Obama | Democratic Party | Hillary Clinton | Howard Dean — Comments (35)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 11:01am on Apr. 15, 2008 Obama's statement causes anxiety, division among Dems

By Soren Dayton

Barack Obama's statement about "clinging to guns and religion" is causing real divisions and anxiety in Democratic ranks. TNR's John Judis, co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, wrote:

Some liberal commentators have downplayed the effect of Barack Obama's fundraising speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last week. But that's wishful thinking. ... his remarks in San Francisco will haunt him not only in the upcoming primaries in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, but also in the general election against John McCain, assuming he gets the Democratic nomination.

For confirmation, just look at this from the $2,300 Obama donor who broke the story:

“I’m a religious person, and I grew up poor in a very wealthy family -- sometimes we didn’t have enough to eat, but my larger family was rich. Immediately, the remarks just really bothered me. For the first time, I realized he is an elitist.”

That's a real, live Obama-supporting liberal who feels a little alienated over this. How many more of those are there? Read on.

Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Democratic Party | Elitism — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 1:28pm on Mar. 19, 2008 New lefty Polls: The Democratic Party is falling apart

Watch out for the splinters!

By Mark Kilmer

I'm just here to pass on word of some anxiety forming in the gut of the Dem beast. A lefty polling outfit called Public Policy Polling has unveiled the results of their surveys in Ohio [pdf] and Florida [pdf], and the news is not good.

The Democrats are not the party of inclusion. What they are brewing is a disaster draught.

To wit, from Ohio:

Clinton leads McCain 45-44 in the state [Ohio], while McCain has a 49-41 advantage over Obama. …

Clinton leads McCain just 47-27 with the key demographic of African American voters, while Obama pulls just 62% with respondents who identified themselves as Democrats.

“Some of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s supporters dislike the other candidate so
much that at this point they’re not committing to voting for the eventual Democratic
nominee in the general election,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling.

Hillary's numbers have to be much higher with African Americans, and Barry has to score better with Democrats. It's not working out.

Read On…

Posted in 2008 | Democratic Party — Comments (16)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 11:30pm on Jan. 18, 2008 Dems worried about union intimidation

By Soren Dayton

Now, I wasn't at Redstate when the whole Card Check debate was going on, but, needless to say, Redstate was right, and the Democrats were wrong.

What is so funny today is that the Hillary Clinton people, after getting beaten trying to reduce the power of the culinary union, are screaming about union intimidation. One diarist over at MyDD captured the problem like this:

This is an open caucus. Union members will be standing in the same room with other union members. Or maybe even their shop steward. Or their foreman. Or possibly even a union official. Everyone will know which candidate you're backing. And if you're a member of Culinary Workers Local 226, and you don't caucus for Senator Obama???

Lemme get the argument straight. Secret ballots are important to protect you in a caucus from union thugs, but not in a vote in a unionized shop?

I love watching the Democrats. They are validating our arguments about the Democrat Party. They prove the deep strain of racism in their party. They prove our arguments about union thuggery. They have a couple more weeks to give us more attacks... Fun fun fun.

Posted in 2008 | Democratic Party | Nevada Caucuses | unions — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 9:11am on Jan. 4, 2008 Dems have a damaging, protracted fight on their hands

By Soren Dayton

I have a couple of thoughts about the impact of yesterday's blowout by Barack Obama over, primarily, Hillary Clinton. The Nutroots, who hate Clinton anyways, are already touting Obama's win as a "new generation tak[ing] charge". And there's some logic to that. As if to emphasize that point, Hillary was standing there with Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, and Wesley Clark, all Dem leaders from the 90s, almost a decade ago. The Dems picked generational change, and Hillary is touting "back to the future." The establishment wants their power, and they are going to fight for it. Both the length and the brutality of the fight help the GOP in November.

More after the jump.

Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Democratic Party | Hillary Clinton — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 1:30pm on Dec. 5, 2007 Democrats New Iraq Strategy: Declare Victory

They Couldn’t Beat Bush So Now They Plan to Join Him

By Mark I

Predictably, but no less unbelievably, Congressional Democrats are considering a new approach in dealing with the burgeoning success in Iraq. Michael O’Hanlon, of the Brookings Institution and author of a now famous New York Times op-ed that was one of the first to claim that the surge was working, has another opinion piece in today’s USA Today. O’Hanlon argues that Democrats are due a large share of the credit for the surge’s apparent success.

Rarely in U.S. history has a political party diagnosed a major failure in the country's approach to a crucial issue of the day, led a national referendum on the failing policy, forced a change in that policy that led to major substantive benefits for the nation — and then categorically refused to take any credit whatsoever for doing so.

The Washington Post characterizes O’Hanlon’s thesis as a first airing of a possible shift in strategy by House Democrats over funding for the Iraq war. Democrats are considering dropping timeframes for troop withdrawal altogether in favor of timelines on political progress. This strategy says O’Hanlon, will allow Democrats to acknowledge the success of our troops while maintaining opposition to the war.

Read on…

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