Yankeefan,
We'll just step over the fact that your team won't be there at the close of the season ... 59 games to elimination.
As for politics, let's go back to the same FITSNews article and read what Earl Capps had to say (since you have a hard time believing what I'm saying - hear it from another):
Quoting Earl Capps from the aforementioned FITSNews article:
SSHM has a point - a lot of GOP strategists failed to see the evolving electorate, and failed to recognize what the netroots crowd has - how we communicate changes how we see the world around us and how we view issues.
It’s not that a lot of voters have become Democratic so much as the GOP isn’t communicating as clearly. Even worse, among younger voters, they don’t connect at all.
It’s like going to a debate with good information, but being unable to speak the language. All the facts and all the concerns will fall on deaf ears.
The political world of 1994 is not the world of 2008, or even of 2000, but there are a lot of GOP operatives who are still resting on their laurels who think past results guarantee future victories.
The Democrats, kept losing, purging their ranks and bringing on new people, until they found winners, a changed political environment - or both. Just like three years of thrashing by Lee eventually produced a General Grant, they ended up with campaign operatives who aren’t hung up on winning past elections.
Perhaps the GOP was right on the key issues from the early Bush days. We are more secure, our enemies are on the run, and tax cuts put new life in the economy. But voters move on once problems are solved, so the failure to address new issues such as reining in the federal budget and addressing energy security issues has left a lot of voters unhappy with the GOP, but uncertain of where to turn.
Obama has scored a lot of points by making it clear he understands people are concerned, even if he’s not too good at coming up with clear answers. So long as he is just a candidate, he can get away with it.
While the GOP is getting much of the blame for not having a relevant and principled message, the reality is the Democrats don’t have one either. Whoever figures this out first will be the new majority party.
Ding ding ding ding . . . . we have a WINNER! Putting your head in the sand to avoid the incoming "tsunami of change" wont save you from it - it will just blind you from your end. Ignore the article at FITSNews and the 20 or so comments at your peril.
Speaking of idiot . . . you may want to take a quick trip to Abbeville County and inquire about the composition of their County Council. Last I checked, the entire council was composed of DEMOCRATS.
While the statewide offices haven't changed, you have to at least be smart enough to look at the individual counties and identify with the voters and who they are electing and why. Then again, you do cheer for the yankees . . .
STUPID.
- SSHM
"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you . . ." - Neo
