Jan Owen wrote:
It's that the DEMOCRATS are NOTHING... They have NO program. They have NO
clue. They only hate REPUBLICANS...

What *is* wrong with the Democratic Party in the U.S. these days - and,
as well, with liberals the world over?

I don't think it is hard to sell the voters on voting for a party that
favors the ordinary working man over rich businessmen.

But then the liberal parties go and spoil it all.

They come up with issues like "gay marriage", which are ahead of what
most ordinary working people understand or accept.

They favor more immigration, which makes it harder to find a job at a
decent wage, or to afford a house.

And, when the country *has* real enemies - and totalitarian dictators
are *always* the enemies of free men, whether their window-dressing is
conservative, like Hitler's, or liberal, like Stalin's - it's just
*dumb* to leave the country with the impression that you don't take
them seriously. Having a "war hero" as your Presidential candidate
whose main claim to fame was stumping the country to tell America it
was perpetrating genocide in Vietnam is not exactly the way to convince
the country that you're taking national security seriously.

If the Republican party is divided by a war between social
conservatives and Fundamentalists and Evangelicals on the one side, and
free-enterprise businessmen on the other, it seems like in the
Democratic party, the college liberals have won the war, and the trade
union liberals are nowhere to be found.

Sometimes, strength is to be found in unity...

John Savard