Conservative Dominance May Be in Its Final Days

[maddezmom]

Conservative Dominance May Be in Its Final Days

By JOHN HARWOOD
Published: October 5, 2008
Shadowed by economic peril, the two major political parties enter the election homestretch a study in contrasts of philosophy, strategy and confidence.

Democrats view Wall Street’s cry for a government rescue in light of what Senator Barack Obama calls “the final verdict” on the free-market ideology that has reigned, for the most part, in American politics for the last generation. Most Republicans condemn the bailout as a betrayal of that ideology.

Obama Democrats press for Washington to regulate financial institutions, augment the health insurance system and redistribute income through adjustments to the tax code. John McCain Republicans seek to direct voters’ unhappiness toward Washington’s corruption, rather than its underlying priorities, and raise doubts about Mr. Obama personally.

Flush with cash, Mr. Obama’s party embraces opportunities to carry once-forbidding “red” states in the presidential race and build larger House and Senate majorities to enact their agenda. Mr. McCain’s party aims at a narrow presidential victory on a shrunken battlefield as some Congressional Republicans have begun viewing his potential defeat as a step toward political renewal.

Perhaps a Major Shift

The first stirrings of conservative ascendance came in the 1950s, after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Coalition won five straight elections. The cultural divisions of the 1960s lent new force to Republican candidates.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/us/politics/06caucus.html

[billyoc]

1. They'll always have NASCAR.

:rofl:

[The Traveler]

5. So will I ...

NASCAR fandom really has little to do with political views ... but the tendency of the left to dump on the NASCAR folk merely serves to isolate the left from a significant group of potential allies and fuel charges of "elitism".

Really, our cause is ill served by that attitude towards many of our fellow citizens.

No offense, Peace.

Trav

[billyoc]

7. Hell, I lobbied to get a track here on Staten Island. Still might get it.

Big Intimidator fan, me.

[Faygo Kid]

2. They will kill.

These are not nice people.

[McCCain4retirment]

3. I love that

"Obama Democrats"

[yurbud]

4. their first surge after FDR looks a lot like the way they operate NOW--witch hunts, enemies lists,

fear-mongering.

It's like they only have a handful of plays, so they just keep doing them over and over.

[Waiting For Everyman]

6. Exactly.

They're very predictable.

[yurbud]

8. when they get in the driver's seat, they always head for the cliff. They're Toonces

the driving cat.

[vinylsolution]

9. But corporate dominance will prevail....

... the DNC leadership will make sure of that.