Deception Only Tactic Available for Democrats in South

Rethinking Red States
Can Democrats Compete in the South?

Washington Post
Shailagh Murray
Monday, July 24, 2006; Page A08

If you want to understand why Democrats are the minority party in Congress, look at four states: Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky. Before the 1994 elections, when Democrats still controlled both chambers, these Southern states had 24 Democratic House members and 14 Republicans. Among senators, there were five Republicans and three Democrats.

Look today. There are 24 GOP House members and 15 Democrats, and all eight senators are Republicans.

Democrats acknowledge that their prospects for regaining control are dim until they start winning elections in this region. Several of this year's races are lab experiments in this effort, with Democrats testing new types of candidates, messages and media.

They hope to underscore that they do not fit stereotypes of Democrats as cultural liberals, and they hope to win voters with a mix of economic populism and traditional values. There is talk of raising the minimum wage and creating more jobs, but usually little about abortion or gun control.

You better believe that Democrats are not going to mention abortion or gun control. For Democrats to tell the truth on those two issue is a guaranteed loser for them. The only way a Democrat has a chance to win in these states is to pretend to be something they are not. Now the specific candidates may or may not be pro-gun control and pro-abortion, that is irrelevent. The platform of the Democrat Party on which these candidates are running is pro-gun control and pro-abotion, so they must not mention those two subjects when addressing their voting public.

Lies and deceit are the Democrat Party's most effective weapons. If they actually ran on what they believed, socialism, authoritarian centralized government, control of every facet of your life, the usual Marxist-Stalinist Democrat party platform.

These guys claim that they do not fit stereotypes of Democrats as cultural liberals, but they are avoiding discussing the two most defining issues of the Democrat Party. Yeah, they are typical lying Democrats.

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