Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss. ...

“Democratic Divide
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
By John Gibson


While all the world is waiting to hear what Dick Cheney might or might not have to say about accidentally shooting a friend over the weekend, a very important thing happened Tuesday in Democratic politics.

A very attractive, young Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio named Paul Hackett was dumped by the Democrat Party, and Hackett and the far left are all very, very angry about it.

Hackett is an anti-war, anti-Bush Iraq war veteran. He made a very strong showing in '04 for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio and decided he was going to run again. He was asked by the Democratic big shots to run again. And he was running.

Then, all of a sudden, the Dem big shots — in this case Senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid — decided it was better to back somebody else, an old Ohio political hand named Sherrod Brown. Schumer and Reid told the Iraq war veteran he had to quit the Senate race and run for Congress instead.

Hackett said, "No can do. I already promised several Dem candidates for Congress I wouldn't run and my word is my bond."

The Dem big shots told Hackett, "Break your word. We do it all the time."

Hackett said, "I said it, I meant it, I stand behind it. The answer is no."

So now one of the potential young stars of Dem politics is out in the cold and he's ticked off. Betrayed, double-crossed and ticked.

The blue blogs are going crazy over this. Hackett was the poster boy of the anti-Bush, anti-war left, and he got screwed by his own party. Some of the far left blogs are saying, "See, this is why party unity is bogus. The party eats its own."

You know what? They're right. I don't agree with Hackett politically, but he is the kind of person who is the hope of the Democratic Party and the old lions of the party just made a huge mistake. They created dissention and division in their own ranks. This is how you get young Dems to stay away from the polls.

Conservatives are amused. They used to do this same sort of thing themselves. They learned to avoid this kind of mistake in order to hang together and win.

If you are a Democrat and you were hoping to take away the Congress, this was not a good news day.

That's My Word.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184892,00.html
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“I'm not posting this to gloat, as some of the dimmer one's will assume.
Just to show there isn't really much difference between Power Brokers of either Party.”

“This guy stands for just about everything I don't but ya gotta give him his props for not breaking his word.”

“Who was the black democratic candidate in New York that the DEMS destroyed in the last election because he didn't want to stay on the "reservation"?”

“That "word is my bond" stuff is great.”

“"reservation"???

LOL
Didn't you mean "plantation", Capt Dan?
Ol' Hillary would not be pleased.
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“Now I can't get the old Who song Won't Get Fooled Again out of my head.
Great song!”

“That "word is my bond" stuff is great.

Reminds me of these guys' promise to repay all the money in the briefcase:



And of course, it's a good symbol for the whole Dhimmicratic Party.”

“That's from Faux News, StoveStomper.”

“LUFK”

““That's from Faux News, StoveStomper.”
Sarge
11:24:57 AM

...and commentary at that.”

“I watch fox news on a plane over the weekend, and I have to say, if that and sources like it are where you guys get your 'news', no wonder you say the stuff you do.”

“Typical.
No comments on the subject from the Libbies.”

“We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss”