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Nov. 18, 2004 As a result of my blog, The New Democrat (link at the bottom of this column), gaining popularity among many different groups of people, I have begun to get hate mail. This is not hate mail from Republicans; in fact, I have received very positive, encouraging pieces of feedback from men like Ken Hughes and Brooks A. Mick. No, this hate mail comes from the part of the Democratic Party that feels alienated by my views and my plan: the small but vocal liberal majority that has hijacked the party of Truman and Clinton. These liberals assault my name, ask me why I think my plan will help anything, say that they are not liberal, just intelligent, and that the right portrayed them as liberal in their typically dark ways. They claim that running John Kerry, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi in 2008 will help us to win back the White House. If only these “Kerrycrats,” as a friend recently labeled them, could understand how off the mark they are. We lost 2004 primarily because of John Kerry’s high-minded inaccessibility, his inability to mix with the common man and common woman, his complete failure at coming off as a regular guy. I respect Senator Kerry, and have always applauded his military record, but Kerry’s voting record and confusing, long-winded views on domestic policy ultimately killed him in the states we so dearly needed. The Kerrycrats do not realize that the United States is going through another momentum shift, moving to the right, becoming more socially conservative to match their already present economic conservatism. Democrats cannot afford to wait another 15 – 20 years for the tide to shift. To be successful, we must do what we have done in the past and adapt to the views of the people. I have a deep faith in the ability of any party to restore itself once it has rid its ranks of the radicals and realigned with how best to serve the people. Men like Evan Bayh, Mark Warner, Bill Richardson and women like Janet Napolitano are those members of the Democratic Party that can bring us back on track and give us national party status once again in 2008. There is no place for extreme Kerry- and Moore-liberalism in the ranks. We must now sit back for four years and listen to every opinion, moderate, and see where it gets us. After every election there must be a cleansing, a bloodletting, where policies are taken back and revamped, looked at, revitalized so as best to serve the people who voted for us. We will not get to that point of renovation and renewed vigor if we allow the vocal liberal minority to guide the party platform. I have been called a Republican Lite, pandering to the winds of politics in order to shape my views. No - I am simply speaking publicly about views I have held for quite some time. John Kerry should never have been our candidate. Dare I say that Richard Gephardt may have been the moderate center we needed to take back West Virginia, traditionally a Democratic state? John Kerry’s positions, not Bush’s imagined surge, killed our chances. The idea that some Democrats would be willing to bolt the party if we were to nominate a moderate ticket and return to rationality in our positions on issues is absurd and saddening. I never imagined that men and women who claimed to be Democrats through and through would plan on boycotting the party because we wish to return to how Democrats should be, and not what Michael Moore has made us out to be. The liberal contingent, strong in the late 70’s, proved even then that liberalism did not work in the mainstream. It is not what people want, and it is not what the Democratic Party is about. What we will do about it, however, I do not know yet. Perhaps I can do something, but the task is daunting. The possible benefits, however, justify the sacrifice of time, energy and sweat in discovering the root of the problem and the best tonic to fix it. That is what the Democratic Party is about – working hard and being listened to for what you have done. The Kerrycrats just don’t get it. That, friends, is dangerous. ------------ About the author: Max Burns is a 17-year-old Democrat with moderate, centrist ideals. He blames John Kerry's 2004 loss on John Kerry, and is authoring a pamphlet on how to refine the Democratic Party for Victory in 2008 and beyond. For more information, check out The New Democrat. Read the fantasy-fiction novel "Alcardia". Email: DeMBurns@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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