Eating the Young

My oh My what a wonderful thing this political season has turned out to be. Do you realize what we are watching here? History. This is a historical political season. No matter what, the Democratic party will either put a black or woman on the ticket as candidate. It is truly historical. Now that I have gotten all the obligatory praise out of the way let's really get down to it.

The Democrats are just about ready to implode. This party that has spent it's entire political capital for the last twenty years segregating voters into groups of victims, is beginning to reap what they have sewn.

The founding fathers argued that the true threat to democracy was not an external force but the development of factions. The ability to seperate the individual into a faction based on some external or internal conflict was the fear of all the founders. That is why they parsed power the way they did so that it would be almost impossible for a factional group to gain control of the government. The equal powers granted to each branch was not to keep watch on the other but to prevent the power grab of a faction.

The democrats have spent the last thirty or more years developing a factional party in order to drive a wedge between groups. This becomes beneficial to dem party power by being able to speak to each faction individually without a unifying theme. They can speak equally to the poor urban blacks and the liberal elite of the west coast even though these two groups have absolutely zero in common or have common goals for the nation. They do this by speaking the language of the group to which they are trying to appeal. The only way they can get away with this is to create a factional party with each faction looking out for their own interest.
Well guess what happens when you have one candidate speaking to some factions and another candidate speaking to other factions both effective in their own circle. You get exposed.

That is the most important result of this primary season. The democratic strategy of dividing the country along racial, economic, geographic, and any other way they could divide it in order to appeal to each group has come back to bite them in the buttocks.

What we are witnessing today is also the vapid reality that is the democratic party. I have yet to hear an original idea from any candidate. Obama wants change, well guess what, so did Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and Castro and Ho Chi Minh. Change is good but what does he want us to change in to. Well let's see what he believes in. According to his voting record we see two things,
1. He rarely voted, maybe rarely is a bit harsh, he didn't vote regularly.
2. The positions he actually took on the things he voted for was of a highly liberal one. He showed his true colors when he stood to be counted.

Clinton- Come on do I really need to go into all the wrong here. Let's just let this dog lie.

McCain- Not the most conservative Rep. but conservative in the right places. Military, and his lifelong position of opposing pork barrel spending which earns him his economic conservative stripes, tax cut flip-flop not withstanding. He is more willing to compromise on immigration issues than most conservatives would like but I say that this is what makes him a great general election candidate. Look people are looking for someone who can work across party lines in order to get things done. The president deals with big things, immigration, foreign policy, war and such so the next president needs to be able to build political capital within the opposition.
The only candidate who has consistently demonstrated to the public this ability it is McCain, much to the republicans shagrin. But that is the number one reason he will be the most attractive candidate in the fall that the republicans could have asked for.

Anyway, this will be a great political summer.

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