The two-party system is self-healing.

Post #182,600 by marlowe 11/3/04 8:02:30 PM Reply	The two-party system is self-healing. This has happened before lots of times in American history. It always sorts itself out and we have two major parties again. Just not always the same two we started with. The Democrats can recover from this. But they have to make a lot of changes. If they don't, they will be replaced by some other party. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Memo to Democrats and to the Left: hatred is not a substitute for vision. "All the news you wish would go away" [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
Post #182,716 by tuberculosis 11/4/04 12:41:20 AM Reply	RE: Sig >Memo to Democrats and to the Left: hatred is not a substitute for vision. Superstition-based Xenophobia is not a substitute for compassion. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #182,754 by Simon_Jester 11/4/04 9:49:57 AM Reply	d00d...where are you coming from? My god...even I didn't declare the death of the Republican Party when Clinton was elected. (The 2nd time around, no less) Yes, Democrats lost. But it was also a very tight race with the country split damn near 50/50.
Post #182,763 by admin 11/4/04 10:10:35 AM Reply	No kidding... When you almost get beaten by a liberal senator from Massachusetts, you can't exactly claim, "Mandate". All the election showed is what happens when you put a bad incumbent against a bad candidate. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #182,859 by lincoln 11/4/04 4:32:02 PM Reply	Unfortunately This morning I heard an announcer on a conservative radio station actually throwing around the word "mandate" more than once. I'm afraid that there will be a lot of people who have the same sentiments in the Repo party. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #182,862 by admin 11/4/04 4:43:57 PM Reply	That's the word of the day. I've heard it quite a few times around here. Me: Mandate. larf Them: But, this is the highest number of people who have ever voted for a President! Me: Not percentage wise, it isn't. Them: But, he won over 50% of the vote! First time since 1988! Me: Uh, all that reflects is the fact that no one was willing to vote for a 3rd party candidate. There weren't any Naders or Perots that could siphon off enough votes to drop everyone below 50%. Them: It's still a mandate! Me: Dude, he barely beat a liberal senator from Massachusetts, and half the country can't stand him. Them: 4 more years! 4 more years! sigh Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #182,872 by a6l6e6x 11/4/04 5:39:40 PM Reply	Yeh, and Gore had mandate in 2000! :) Alex In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)

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