An Invitation to Democrats in Exile
Welcome all you newly “unaffiliated” voters! If you’re like me, you realized sometime in the last couple of months that you are part of the “old coalition” of the Democratic party. But you’re not cool enough to be courted by the “new coalition” because you’re working class, gay, hispanic, asian, a woman, old or a brilliant combination of an *uneducated* working class, sino-peruvian lesbian. And you said, “Um, that’s not really who I am” Actually, that’s NOT who I am, except for the woman part. (Lemme check *peeking down shirt* Yep, I’m a woman)
I’m getting kind of tired of being written off by my party except for the whole, “We need your vote” thing. I want my nominee to pander to me. I want him to make me promises he does not intend to keep. I want to sit at the cool lunchtable. So, today, I am registering as an “unaffiliated” voter. I mean, I’m a well-paid, suburbanite, college educated, working in a very creative field and I can shoot latte like the best of them. Plus, my boobs don’t sag so I will fit right in with all of the other Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models with PhDs in Architecture that Obama has in his plus column.
Now that I am “unaffiliated”, I’m like one of those really attractive singles on hot dating sites. Obama is going to want my vote big time. When I was just a Democrat, I was completely unsexy. But I have shed that old skin, sort of like dermal abrasion, and I’m brand sparkling new and beautiful and so much smarter than I was just a few minutes ago. And my mind is suddenly unburdened. Yeah! I’m no longer worried about Social Security because that was the *old coalition’s” problem. Or universal healthcare because shared responsibility means that I might actually have to acknowledge the working class. Or high gas prices, because if people are spending too much on gas to drive to work, they should just buy a house closer to each of their jobs. Duh!
Any day now, Obama supporters will be knocking at my door and ask me to get a membership in their exclusive club. I will be treated like a queen once they scan the voter’s rolls in NJ and see my name. It will be like, “Oooo, Riverdaughter is a “creative class” unaffiliated. Well, we must really ask her to do a round of golf with us or share a latte.” I will be pampered and courted and made to feel better than all of you losers who comment on this blog.
Soon, I will not be able to associate with you or will only be able to sneer disdainfully at you in passing. Who needs real Democrats when you can win without them?
Hi: What? No one has commented on this great post yet? What’s with that? GREAT FUCKIN POST!!!!
I will be linking to it. On March 25, in writing to my District Democratic Party Chair, I resigned and made it clear why. The DNC, for godsakes! Florida and Michigan for chrissakes. Talk about tearing the party apart. It ain’t the candidates. It is the process.
The process is so tainted there is no way to validly conclude what constitutes the “will of the people.” I say it is time to marginalize the Democrats and create a party called The New Democrats — nationwide, one day primary. Period. Saves money, gets rid of old school politics, advances democracy in the US (now, something like a third world country…
Yah. You betcha.
Hi Mark! Glad you agree. I posted this yesterday in the regular portion of the blog and got a lot of favorable hits. Katiebird suggested we make it semi-permanent in a tab.
You’ve got courage, Mark. I’m with you every step of the way. We all are.
And you’re looking pretty hot too.
Oh…. sorry. I am not a regular reader, so I didn’t notice the earlier post that has so many comments attached to it… ooops.
However, I think it is a great idea to have it re-posted here with a tab so it is never lost in the archives.
Please consider me for your blogroll. http://www.HillaryNowObamaLater.org or http://www.MenforHillary.org
Take care, Mark
I LOVE THIS POST!
“I want my nominee to pander to me.”
That pretty much sums it up.
Obama didn’t kiss your ass on the basis of your identity trip, so he’s a hater.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton abandons her policy chops for a series of fake panders… Crown Royal… symbolic tax cuts… he wouldn’t be my pastor (even though my pastor has a lot of respect for him)… and a bunch of hypocritical garbage about the franchise and the process.
Thanks for President McCain. When SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade, will you blame Obama for that, too?
Reading River’s post about the Sirens of the new coalition enticing us to join the Obamalution, I got an eerie feeling of the “Stepford Wives.” If you never saw the original film (not the dumb recent remake), you’ll know what I mean. Netflix has it. Everything smooth and “conciliatory.” Fat chance BHO will ask his Justice Dept (if he’s elected) to assign a special prosecutor to investigate Bush, Cheney and pals on felony crimes of torture, illegal wiretapping and various other anti-Constitutional acts via grand jury and criminal trial (like Fitz went after Libby). I’m sick at heart at the thought of a schmoozie 8 years ahead where Bush era criminality will be swept under the rug for the sake of unity and conciliation with Republicans while the rule of law evaporates before our eyes but many (especially among Obamabots) won’t notice because they never realized the irony that if we don’t enforce the law (like the Constitution) we lose our freedom.
Second sentence above ahould read: ” If you EVER saw the original “Stepford Wives” . . . you’ll know what I mean.”
Oh my gosh, have I finally found somewhere that I can actually say that I don’t support Obama, simply because what I have seen, I don’t like and not be called a bottom feeding racist scum sucking bigot?
Kim: Yep. Pretty much.
It’s good to see you!
NO VOTE FOR OBAMA, WE WANT CHELSEA’S MAMA!
A++++++
You simply *must* come hang out with us on the Hillary board at FaceBook, RiverDaughter!
Just drop me a note if you want the link !!
And, yeah, I’m with you… or, maybe I’m even less willing to be courted than are you. I’d vote for McCain over Obama.
Returned my DNC card in shreds a couple of weeks ago. Have been refusing their requests for money since Florida and Michigan debacle. Let John McCain know that I can be bought. Olympia Snowe or Christie Todd Whitman as VP? Sandra Day O’Connor SCJ clones? Rethink “women need more training”? I’ll give him “Crazy Old Uncle” status and will not throw him under a bus. UHC can wait until 2012 if it has to. Nixon brought the troops home from Vietnam. Uncle John can be persuaded. Would love to see McCain/Clinton but I know she’s too loyal to the Dimocrats if even I’m not.
Pander: to provide gratification for others’ desires. (Merrriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary)
Am I wrong to expect our elected officials, and those who hope to be, to seek to provide gratification for their constituents? Have we been in the desert so long in this country that we don’t even think we are entitled? Are they not talking about giving something back to us that was ours to begin with? I say it’s about damn time. The reverse has been the case for far too long now and many of us are hurting because of it. So what if it’s only 20 cents, for me it could mean I could afford to go to Starbucks once a month, order a latte and sit around with folks and intellectualize about how the other half lives.
P.S. I know this is an “old” topic now, but I just had to get it off my chest. This seemed like a good place to be able to do so.
I am eagerly awaiting my voter registration forms in the mail. I’m re-registering as an Independent.
The Democratic party has left me too - never thought I’d see the day, but it is time to move on.
I love this site..how do I subcribe? Obama is rapeing the american public of the Presidency…and they don’t even know it..What we all should be demanding is for him to disclose his campaign funding? He is buying delagates as well as superdelegates..to me…this is wrong…what ever happened to We The People, For the People? He is trying to deny the votes of the yet to be Primaries..and again fooling the public..and the media is helping him..We should all try to encourage Hillary to run under a new party called, We The People, For the People..and then she will win..she cares about the common people of this country and is capable and willing to make the changes that are necessary to give it back to us..Obama has consistently lied about so many things..and I believe he is getting funding from the Humas and other groups that want to take over our country..
God Bless America, help Hillary give it back to us..
Dee,
PA.
This is a great site there are not ot many out here like yours I was born in PHilly rasied in Bucks county and now live in Ga. I am one hundred % be hind Hillary and glad to see others agree .
Love the post. I do feel like a Democrat in exile and have left the party. I registered as “unaffiliated” here in Florida. I stand with Hillary. (Translation - Obama will not get grlpatriot’s vote.)
Please allow me to luxuriate for at least a few more hours >>Barry Obama was trampled in WV. I expect by the time tomorrow arrives we will see the usual brain-dead super delegate rush to Precious side showing once again their collective support of the most divisive fraud in this election.
It was a delicious victory for Hillary and for all who support her candidancy. I think Barry was off in another state “playing” President in waiting”.
Weirdly, I was willing to vote for Obama if he got the nomination — before all the media attempts to belittle every Hillary victory, before the Obaminators ganged up on people in Kos and elsewhere and tried to shout every dissenting voice down. Who do they think they are, Karl Rove?!
Now — well, now that it’s such a disgusting thing to be a white well-educated woman above 29 who cares about health care and economic policy and practical approaches to problem-solving, the Obaminators can just kiss my bumper sticker. Thanks for the post, River, you are a latte-lover after my own heart, as well as being the scariest thing to anyone of tyrannical leanings (left or right) — a SATIRIST! Woooooo. Scary.
I voted for Edwards on Super Tuesday, because I’m a wage-earning working stiff and I found both Clinton and Obama too corporate-friendly for my taste. Even though Edwards had withdrawn a few days earlier, I thought that voting for him would send a message to the two remaining candidates not to forget us working stiffs.
Judging from their words since then, I think Clinton got the message better than Obama did. For several weeks, I thought I’d be content with either of them. However, I slowly got wearier and wearier of the triumphalism and arrogance of the Oborg Collective, and Shakesville kept me up to speed on the misogynistic hatred of Hillary from the Corporate Holodeck Media, and some of the Oborg began coming over and laying their misogynistic verbal turds on Shakesville.
Finally, the other day, a bunch of the little Oborg Visigoths came over and crapped all over one of the Shakesville threads [I would almost bet my next paycheck that they were all white college punks who think listening to gangsta rap makes them bad@$$es], and I decided to sulfuric HELL with those arrogant bastards, I am supporting Hillary and if the Democrats nominate The Precious, I will vote Green in November. Obama would now need to make some SERIOUS moves if he wants my support if he is nominated.
AMEN.