I'll be doing live commentary on the Romney speech on MSNBC starting a 10am (EST) and will be on CNN again in the 1:30 hour.
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Thursday December 6, 2007
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History is on your side Skip but if we ever get a real true believer what happens? The longer we mistake politics for faith the the higher the risk. (First time Ive blogged and appreciate the civil discourse here.)
About Massachusetts Democrats, yes, the Party is no longer an Irish/Catholic-only Old Democrat populist club. And it simply will never be that again because the WASP/Irish tribal division is no longer what matters. Nor is the state economy based in low education blue collar labor anymore, utterly dependent on federal construction and arms contractor welfare.
Mitt Romney received 49% of the vote in 2002. Shannon O'Brien and (farther left of her) Jill Stein got 48%, combined, in the very best year for Republicans since 1984. What a rejection of their platforms! I guess the 2004 and 2006 elections, in which gay marriage supporters won a lot of seats in the legislature and the governorship, losing not a single seat, don't count.
The one and only mandate Romney ever had was paradoxically to force out fellow outdated conservative- but nominal Democrat- Tom Finneran. Without Finneran to attack he had no pull left or job to do. At the same time the Archdiocese of Boston attained worldwide fame for its conservative manner of dealing with pederasty and homosexuality. Those are all self-inflicted defeats by the Right in Massachusetts.
It's not merely Massachusetts. One state after another is slowly realigning politically as older, more tribal, forms of society and the Cold War economy fade away.
Steve, we can be a boisterous bunch and there are a lot of different views held by the regulars here but, while the civility of the tone can vary some (guilty) I'd say all the regulars genuinely like each other and David, even the servants of darkness. I'm glad you decided to join us.
Steve,
from your list, have you studied much of American history? If Roe vs wade being overturned means we are a "theocracy" would you agree that in the 1960s the United States was a theocracy?
Lots of the things you mentioned were illegal in the 20th century in the US, was the US a theocracy in the 20th century?
If abortion was illegal and you stop looking at your pornography, does that mean you are living in a theocracy?
dead children and abused women (abortion and pornography) is not the best political platform in the world.
David: Saw you on "Hardball". You did a good job, at least as good as any guest of Chris Matthews can. He doesn't seemed interested in anyone's opinion but his own.
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