Across the Back Fence

Is it true that Liberals have similar complaints about their Democrat Party as Conservatives do about their Republican Party?

The following statement was attributed to Bill Maher on the David Letterman show: “The bigger problem is that over the last 30 years the Democrat party has moved to the right and the Republican party has moved into a mental hospital.”

Maher’s attempt at humor is as weak as Letterman’s, but aside from that, is there any truth to this statement regarding the Democrat Party, or is he, as is Letterman, simply off his rocker and in need himself of mental health services?

All during the election Obama ran a centrist campaign, though those of us who actually took the time to read and listen to statement’s he’d made over the past decade knew that he was and is anything but a centrist or moderate. Ever since the election Obama has legislated and given speeches from the extreme Liberal side of the aisle, using many of Saul Alinsky’s tenants in his book “Rules for Radicals” for his proposals and ideas.

You’ll remember that it was Tom Brokaw who, during the campaign, admitted that the mainstream media really don’t know much about Barrack Obama, although they knew enough to want to suppress it until after the election, such as his middle name, which was off limits until his speech in Cairo when he played his Muslim middle name up, much to the praise of his Muslim audience.

Ironically, John McCain also ran a centrist campaign up until the end, when he tried to juke right with the naming of Sarah Palin as his VP running mate. And, as much as Palin motivated Conservatives within the GOP, Democrats simply do a better job being Liberals than Republicans.

I think we might be seeing the onset of another GOP revolution, coming mostly from the Conservative side of the party, but joined in part by disaffected independents, who recognize that Obama lied to them and the rest of the nation when he campaigned from the middle.

There’s an interesting blog that discusses, with statistics, the polarization of the two parties. I don’t believe that this polarization is necessarily a bad thing in part because we’ve seen what happens when one party opts to cede its moral authority in exchange for being liked. As Republicans opted to move to the political center they left behind a whole host of Conservative constituents who responded in 1994 by electing a Republican majority to the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and who were also a large base of support for Ronald Reagan’s two terms in the White House.

In short, it’s ludicrous to say that the Democrats haven’t gone far enough to the left unless you are completely off your rocker and think that political despotism is a good thing. As the defacto leader of the Democrat Party, President Obama is responsible for the party’s slide to the extreme left. His ultra-liberal ideals and radical training and proposals are anathema to what this country was built upon and what we stand for as a nation. It’s also dangerous to world stability as it sends the message to our enemies that it’s okay for them to develop nuclear weapons and propose the utter destruction of entire nations.