May Already be Gone Death of a S
The Democratic Party, as We Know it, May Already be Gone Death of a Star.
No I?’m not referring to Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Springsteen, nor the rest of the Hollywood glitterati in the twilight of their careers as entertainers. I?’m referring to the death of the Democratic Party. Its hysterical mouthpieces, the likes of Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Jane Smiley, Susan Estrich, Lawrence O?’Donnell and James Carville may continue to enjoy the blessings of life and liberty, but their pursuit of happiness may be significantly impaired. Their recent histrionics, reaching a climax with O?’Donnell?’s call for secession, have provided the same pyro-spectacle as the death of a star, exploding into a nebula, then collapsing onto itself in a black hole where even light cannot escape.
Which, not to be outdone, has a match in Al Gore and Howard Dean, the Democrats?’ ?“death star duo?” who, seem to have taken their cues here on earth from shrieking Elsa Lancaster in the 1935 classic horror film The Bride of Frankenstein.
How do we know when a political party is dying? When it runs out of ideas and its constituents die or move on. The American political universe is strewn with the remnants of small stars, the white dwarfs, fleeting fringe players like the Free Soilers, the Know-Nothings, the Mugwumps or Teddy Roosevelt?’s Bull Moose, the Progressives, the Libertarians, Ross Perot?’s Reform party or the more recent Greens. They all had potential energy for an election cycle or two then disappeared in a nanosecond, like a zirconium filled flashbulb.
The Episcopalians, now worship gay and lesbian marriage above all else. Close on their tail are the Presbyterians, who recently pledged allegiance with the Palestinian terrorists and will likely hold a memorial service for Yasser Arafat. And so it goes, as mainline Protestants, abandoning their apostolic mission while embracing the Democrats?’ radical social agenda, are seeing their ranks shrivel up by 10% or more every five years.
Democratic Party groupies are now agonizing between a quick splat after free-falling from a twenty story building or a slow bleed in a hot bath. The less honorable cowards among them are still lined up outside the Canadian consul offices despite being denied entry as political refugees. Whatever method they choose to leave the scene, they will be haunted by Joe Lieberman?’s remarks at the National Press Club in early August when he predicted that the leaders of the Democratic Party ?“ could send us back to the political wilderness for years to come.?”
The last major political party consigned to the wilderness was indeed the Democrats, losing ground to the new Republicans who inherited the remnants of the Whigs in 1854. Abraham Lincoln, a Whig as a young man, became President in 1860 as a Republican. The Republicans enjoyed a nearly unbroken 70 year span of dominance through McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge. The Democrats finally found their voice in FDR but lost it again during the Eisenhower years and of course to Ronald Reagan?’s resurgence and now to the most unlikely of standard-bearers, George W. Bush. Will the 21st century Democrats find a second wind or be consigned to the absolute zero frigid wilderness of the cosmos?
If the elite liberal media editorials and op-ed pieces are reliable telltales, lately rivaling the most virtuosic gamma ray showers and spectacular super novas, the Democratic party, as we know it, may already be gone.
By The Democratic Party, as We Know
