Comments on: I For One, Welcome our New Liberal Overlords

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:16:40 +0000

The mistakes Conservatives made were to allow corporate lobbyists to write their own regulatory policy, and allign too closely to the religious right. Both of these decisions came back to haunt them as the public finally woke up and realized that their government no longer protected consumers or focussed on the problems of the poor or middle class.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:18:10 +0000

If the urban school systems are any indications, the belief that Democrats are good at running the government is laughable. The public schools in Senator obama's home town of Chicago are lousy and no elite liberal would ever send their children to them. The cool elites work hard at avoiding the government (private schools, gated communities, private social clubs) whereas the middle class bears the full force of governmental incompetence while having to foot the bill.

What has affected Republicans much more is changing demographics. Affluent whites are socially liberal but can avoid many of the effects of the government in their professional lives whereas the growing minority classes get the benefits of government spending while paying little of the bill.

Instead of comparing the U.S. to Europe it would be much more applicable to compare politics in the U.S. to the third world where it is the rich and poor versus the middle class.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:02:39 +0000

Things go in cycles. During the rise of the conservatives the democrats not only thought it was still the era of the new deal but, tracked farther left to the point where the whole idea of it wasn't working.
Now the conservatives are going through the same. They have tracked father right then people like and it is no longer working.
In both cases the parties took the winning ideas and after awhile took it to excess.
The gop is suffering from the excess of their ideas. Like the neocons and Bush took everything to excess.
That causes things to not work anymore and the ones to suffer are the average person. So many are now suffering and fears of depression, not just recession lurks.
Given this, people want a democratic majority and to put things in order again.

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:29:35 +0000

Actually McCain is promising to take steps that he says will help American health care while carefully promising things that will do no such thing.

By: Marlowecan

Marlowecan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:30:19 +0000

"For better or for worse, the Cameron Conservatives have adapted to a more culturally liberal, urban, diverse society."

Hmmm...not sure about that one.

Boris Johnson...the new Conservative Mayor of London who just defeated Labour icon "Red Ken" Livingstone...recently declared:

"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."

Not a word of a lie! Look it up. Bojo would overload the Gaffe-ometers of the US media. Crazier than a bag full of ferrets.

It is thus very difficult, if interesting, to extrapolate between UK and US politics.

Perhaps McCain should take a cue from the recent British Tory success and go urban sophisticate.

Maybe add Breast Enlargement to a promised health program for all Americans?