Originally published: November 15, 2007<\/p>\n
The party of Kennedy and Roosevelt?\u00a0 Give me a break!\u00a0 Yes, I do understand.\u00a0 This is the proud defense of today\u2019s Democrats.\u00a0 I too am a Democrat.\u00a0 I was brought up by Democratic parents and we were indeed proud to be part of the party of John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt.\u00a0 I still remain registered as a Democrat but I always vote Republican.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, let me explain but I must first share some tragic news that\u2019s going to devastate many of you.<\/p>\n
You may want to sit down as you read this.\u00a0 Most people do read sitting down so in all likelihood it won\u2019t be a problem for you.\u00a0 Ok, now take a deep breath and brace yourself. Oh, and also, remember:\u00a0 Please don\u2019t shoot the messenger.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the news. John Kennedy is dead.\u00a0 He\u2019s been dead for many decades.\u00a0 Franklin Roosevelt is also dead and he\u2019s been dead even longer than Kennedy.\u00a0 I\u2019m so sorry I had to be the one to tell you but somebody had to say it:\u00a0 We are no longer the party of Kennedy and Roosevelt because Kennedy and Roosevelt aren\u2019t here. And even if they were <\/em>here: one of three things would happen.\u00a0 1)\u00a0 They\u2019d leave the Democratic Party and become Republicans.\u00a0 2) They\u2019d change the Democratic Party so that it is no longer being hijacked by self righteous, sanctimonious, leftist, whinny, morally bankrupt, Politically Correct loudmouths.\u00a0 3) They would cave into the political pressures and compromise the very positions that made them great.\u00a0 I\u00a0 believe Option Three to be the least likely but we\u2019ll never know because, well, again, they’re dead.<\/p>\n Incidentally, what were <\/em>their positions?\u00a0 Did they even remotely represent the positions most Democrats take today?\u00a0 Was either man in favor of making abortion legal?\u00a0 Was either man in favor of gay marriage?\u00a0 Was either man in favor of silencing debate in the name of Hate Speech?\u00a0 Was either man a peacenick unprepared to make war when the better interests of the United States were in danger?\u00a0 Did we not have World War Two under Roosevelt, a President who wanted to go to war with Germany even before Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese?\u00a0 Did Kennedy not bring our troops into Vietnam?<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to drop this laughable tag line.\u00a0 Allow me to make the obvious obvious:\u00a0 Today\u2019s Democratic Party is NOT\u00a0 the party of John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. Indeed, when you say such things you run the risk of causing both men to turn in their graves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Originally published: November 15, 2007 The party of Kennedy and Roosevelt?\u00a0 Give me a break!\u00a0 Yes, I do understand.\u00a0 This is the proud defense of today\u2019s Democrats.\u00a0 I too am a Democrat.\u00a0 I was brought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutpolitics","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}