Central Machine Works
Assholes, Politics Is a Slow Deliberative Process! You Intolerant Idiots!
RECEIVED Wed., Feb. 2, 2005
To the editor,
It’s amazing to see the Democrat National Committee even remotely suggesting that Howard Dean should run the organization. It’s sad because the party of JFK and RFK is not represented by the liberal left any more than the extreme right wing runs the Republican Party. It’s also sad because I believe that the Democrat Party could have greatly increased membership and taken many votes from the Republicans if they would only dump the hardcore left-wing liberals. They’ve cost them election after election, on literally every level of government from city to state to federal. And it’s sad to see that once again, millions of moderate Democrats will have no voice in their party.
Millions of Democrat voters are voting Republican not because they support right-wing assholes like Jerry "Jackass" Falwell, but because they will not support left-wing idiots like Rep. Pelosi and Tanqueray Ted Kennedy. Sorry, but the liberals, like the right wingers, don’t represent the vast majority of members of the party that they’ve attached themselves to. Just because CNN and ABC and Fox News tells you assholes like Falwell and Begala "represent both sides in the political arena," doesn’t make it so. They trot out those asinine dog and pony shows for ratings, and nothing else. Human nature is that we like to see a good fight, so that’s what’s presented to us.
Perhaps soon the Democrat Party will once again become the voice of reasonable, moderate people instead of the home of the intolerant, absolutist leftists. It’d be nice to be able to vote Democrat once in a while without having your only options limited to which is the most anti-Republican. I didn’t think politics was about being against everything the other side offers; I thought it was a process of compromise and give and take, a slow, deliberative process. If you really intend to get anything done.
It’s amazing to see the Democrat National Committee even remotely suggesting that Howard Dean should run the organization. It’s sad because the party of JFK and RFK is not represented by the liberal left any more than the extreme right wing runs the Republican Party. It’s also sad because I believe that the Democrat Party could have greatly increased membership and taken many votes from the Republicans if they would only dump the hardcore left-wing liberals. They’ve cost them election after election, on literally every level of government from city to state to federal. And it’s sad to see that once again, millions of moderate Democrats will have no voice in their party.
Millions of Democrat voters are voting Republican not because they support right-wing assholes like Jerry "Jackass" Falwell, but because they will not support left-wing idiots like Rep. Pelosi and Tanqueray Ted Kennedy. Sorry, but the liberals, like the right wingers, don’t represent the vast majority of members of the party that they’ve attached themselves to. Just because CNN and ABC and Fox News tells you assholes like Falwell and Begala "represent both sides in the political arena," doesn’t make it so. They trot out those asinine dog and pony shows for ratings, and nothing else. Human nature is that we like to see a good fight, so that’s what’s presented to us.
Perhaps soon the Democrat Party will once again become the voice of reasonable, moderate people instead of the home of the intolerant, absolutist leftists. It’d be nice to be able to vote Democrat once in a while without having your only options limited to which is the most anti-Republican. I didn’t think politics was about being against everything the other side offers; I thought it was a process of compromise and give and take, a slow, deliberative process. If you really intend to get anything done.
Carl Swanson