Comments on: Learning from Childers and Davis http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/ & Home of Lawn Mower Repair Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Brian http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24847 Sat, 17 May 2008 10:50:18 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24847 errrr... "...for granted <strong><em>the</em></strong> way Democrats..." errrr…

“…for granted the way Democrats…”

]]> by: Brian http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24846 Sat, 17 May 2008 10:48:33 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24846 Prediction: The Republicans will NOT learn from this. The Democrats WILL. The Republican party still hasn't "hit bottom" and engaged in serious reflection and soul searching. Think of it as a roller coaster. The Republicans have crested the top and are beginning a precipitous fall. They can see it. They are scared. But all they're going to do is wave their arms and scream - and it won't change a thing about where they're heading. Pecan Jim, despite your failed attempt to spell a racial epithet, I think you are on to something. The Republican party seems to have taken the Southern vote for granted they way Democrats have taken the black vote for granted. The national party thinks they can simply run on a platform of calling the other guy a liberal because Southerners hate liberals. It has made them lazy. In this particular race they seem to have failed to engage Childers substantively, choosing instead to call him a liberal (and absurdly linking him to Obama) and leaving it at that. Prediction: The Republicans will NOT learn from this. The Democrats WILL. The Republican party still hasn’t “hit bottom” and engaged in serious reflection and soul searching. Think of it as a roller coaster. The Republicans have crested the top and are beginning a precipitous fall. They can see it. They are scared. But all they’re going to do is wave their arms and scream - and it won’t change a thing about where they’re heading.

Pecan Jim, despite your failed attempt to spell a racial epithet, I think you are on to something. The Republican party seems to have taken the Southern vote for granted they way Democrats have taken the black vote for granted. The national party thinks they can simply run on a platform of calling the other guy a liberal because Southerners hate liberals. It has made them lazy. In this particular race they seem to have failed to engage Childers substantively, choosing instead to call him a liberal (and absurdly linking him to Obama) and leaving it at that.

]]> by: Pecan Jim http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24835 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:14:16 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24835 OK, the republican lost because of the wrong message. What kind of message are they going to run on? Tax cuts for the rich? A war based on lies? Capturing Bin Laden? Balanced budget? Mission accomplished? A less invasive government? Gas prices? Food security? Home ownership? As we can see from todays exchanges, all the republicans have to work with is that most Southerners are so illiterate that they don't know appeasement does not mean negotiating and liberal means <em>[Edit: racial epithet deleted]</em>. OK, the republican lost because of the wrong message. What kind of message are they going to run on? Tax cuts for the rich? A war based on lies? Capturing Bin Laden? Balanced budget? Mission accomplished? A less invasive government? Gas prices? Food security? Home ownership? As we can see from todays exchanges, all the republicans have to work with is that most Southerners are so illiterate that they don’t know appeasement does not mean negotiating and liberal means [Edit: racial epithet deleted].

]]> by: walt moffett http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24833 Sat, 17 May 2008 02:36:16 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24833 Thanks for the steer, practical sociology is always interesting. Thanks for the steer, practical sociology is always interesting.

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24821 Fri, 16 May 2008 22:54:29 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/05/16/learning-from-childers-and-davis/#comment-24821 Hey Danny are you blogging for Mississippi Dems now? ha Hey Danny are you blogging for Mississippi Dems now? ha

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