Democrats Don’t Get It, B’Gosh

Their governor garnered just 45% in defeating perhaps the most ill-prepared, rudderless person ever to sit in the East Wing. Their attorney general will most likely be primaried by one of the few stars of their Party. Their caucus in the state assembly is at a record low membership. Their congressional numbers fell during both the mid-term elections in 2002 and again while sharing the ballot with a supposed unpopular president engaged in an unpopular war.

Would the delegates please stand and welcome to our 2005 Democrat Convention the ghosts of Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry!

Get the picture?

From the floor of their convention in Oshkosh this weekend, Democrats will be high-fiving and passing atta-boys for their platform endorsing everything immoral from embryonic stem cell harvest and abortion on demand, to gay marriage and euthanizing Terri Schiavo.

And they will all share the crazy notion that they are winning.

The truth is, the Democrats are in crisis because their Party has lost their moral compass. Take the Schiavo episode; Democrats will point to polls indicating Republicans over-reached and will pay for it at the next election.

This theme will also be packaged against Republicans vis-à-vis our Party’s ban on embryonic stem cell collection, as well as our appointments of conservative justices. Have no fear Republicans. Rhetoric and history is not on their side.

New Deal Democrats no longer run their Party. FDR tackled the Great Depression by selling his jobs programs in terms of holding government morally accountable. Later, LBJ pushed Civil Rights legislation because he believed it morally wrong, “deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country.”

Soon after, those moral Democrats lost their Party to the Woodstock counter-culture who once shouted, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" Today, those hippies write Party platforms hostile to the sanctity of marriage.

It is not that I believe Republicans are more pious than Democrats. How could I, having seen hypocrisy within the walls of my own church? However, most Americans are church-going, hard-working people with a value system that speaks quietly to their conscience. The Democrat Party is deaf to those whispers.