What Does Delaware Mean?

Delaware has set the Republican Party on its ear. Many of the high profile Repubs are moaning and twisting in the wind, complaining bitterly and publicly. Seems they were generally accepting of the winning Tea Party primary choices until Delaware.

In Delaware the Repub Party dug in its heels over Mike Castle, a nominee the Tea Party didn't like. So the Tea Party determinedly backed their choice, Christine O'Donnell, and guess what? The Tea Party choice won the Republican primary! Now she will go up against the Democratic choice in November.

The Repub Party's major complaint seems to be that Castle would have had a better chance of winning in November and moaning that O'Donnell has little or no chance. Truly, O'Donnell would be a hard sell in any case, but with her own Party carrying on like that, they are setting her up for failure.

This is not a pretty picture of the Republican Party powers-that-be. They seem more concerned about winning seats than they are concerned about seating people who are the voters' choice. And many American voters are tired of the parties strong-arming THEIR choices on them (and they have been); the voters want choices, real choices.

Castle is a candidate who's voting record seems quite in line with the Democratic Party, so why would the Repub Party want to seat someone who most likely will vote with the Dems? What good would it be to have a majority in name, but a minority in votes? Of course, no one should be expected to vote the party line every time, but on the major issues, major party stances, none of the promised changes could be accomplished without the votes.

I think this incident should make all voters look at the party shenanigans on both sides with a jaundiced eye. No wonder voters are organizing outside the party boundaries.

I'm thinking maybe the Tea Party Movement is only the first grassroots party. I'm thinking people with opposing views may want choices, too.

Democratic: Liberal, Socialist, or Progressive?

Have you noticed how many of the politicians of the Democratic party are calling themselves progressive or liberal, but rarely Democratic?

The party has changed over the years. Several years ago I heard friends and relatives explain their change from card-carrying Democrat to Independent with, "I haven't left the Democratic Party; it has left me."

They went on to explain how radical some in the party were becoming and choices in beliefs did not seem welcome. They said members were expected to tow the radical line - no choices. The Democratic Party had been the DFL - Democratic Farm Labor. Farm was left at the roadside. Labor began to mean the "fat cat" union leaders with lots of money to donate to the party. The actual laborer? Also left by the wayside.

And the Democrat part? Well, that changed, too. Some Democratic politicians have begun calling themselves liberals instead of Democrats and others call themselves progressives. It is as though they are distancing themselves from the Democratic label.

So what do these labels mean? Liberals? Well, they are more socially liberal than the old Democratic party. One bench mark is abortion. Did the Democratic party of the last generatiuon support abortion? I don't think so. At least they didn't talk about it. If they had, not one Catholic would have joined the party. And certainly they did not espouse support for parital birth abortion - condoning killing a child as long as the head is still within the protection of the birth canal. Nope, the former generation would not have agreed to that!

The idea of one of our major political parties being taken over by progressives scares me even more. Progressive is NOT the same as Democratic nor is it the same as liberal. Progressive is out and out socialism, well, Marxism, and is simply a term they use because they know most Americans object strenuously to socialism and probably more strenuously to Marxism. They think most Americans will not realize what progressive means and intends to do.

Progressives wish to dismantle the United States - FUNDAMENTALLY change this country. They wish to absorb everything into the federal government and redistribute it equally among all. Well, redistribute what remains after the "fat cats" of government take theirs. They wish to plan everything for you and the country - bringing equality to all, their idea of equality.

This, of course, can only be accomplished by taking away all of your choices, because you need to be satisfied with exactly what everyone else has. You work much harder than your neighbor? Too bad. You deserve nothing more than they.

And, of course, American goods and foods will be shared with all the third world. Want to guess how much will be left to redistribute among those who produce it through the sweat of their brows?

Freedom of choice? No, no, freedom from choice!

OofDah! Bring back the Democratic Party. I'm downright nostalgic for it!