What Is The Future Of Mississippi Democrats?

[BlueDogDemocrat]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706240318

Ike Brown apparently want's to cleanse the Mississippi Democratic Party of folks like me. :(

So, what does a conservative Democrat do? Should we leave with honor, or be kicked out the front door of this big tent that has gotten so small? Should we join the GOP, only to find ourselves again in the unwelcomed minority opinion?

If the Democratic Party want's a viable state party in Mississippi, they better muzzle this man. He is trouble.

[Fish-Bait]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706240318

Ike Brown apparently want's to cleanse the Mississippi Democratic Party of folks like me. :(

So, what does a conservative Democrat do? Should we leave with honor, or be kicked out the front door of this big tent that has gotten so small? Should we join the GOP, only to find ourselves again in the unwelcomed minority opinion?

If the Democratic Party want's a viable state party in Mississippi, they better muzzle this man. He is trouble.

Are you drunk? Be a Dog and at least bark. Hey better yet ask Hillary's best friends aunt's uncle's daughter's friend who's dad is in politics and is a lawyer who knows someone in Maine who knows another guy that has a friend who is a lawyer who's dad ran for Representative and lost to a frikken Indepent who likes to fish on the weekends and don't give a frikk about Hulio the frikken socialist Chavez.
BTW that fisherman lives in Ala-frikken Bama.
Need some food fluffy?.....quit pissin' on my floor before I chain your azz up by the neighbors big DAWG. ruff crackerhead.
Back-out.

[Fish-Bait]

Sorry if I came off sounding to bad BDD. Sorry if I came off sounding to Bad it wontwill happen ever again.

[ComputerDude]

Wow dude. Kinda brutal tonight 'eh?

[Fish-Bait]

Wow dude. Kinda brutal tonight 'eh?
Yep.

[politically incorrect]

Bluedog, forgive the expression, but I think the MS Democrats have screwed the pooch. They pushed for party registration and now they will have it. But I don't think they will like the result.

Most white Mississippians under the age of 60 have voted for Republican candidates for president and for the U.S. Senate. They also have mostly voted for Democrats on the local level. If they have to choose how to identify themselves for registration, I would bet that they will pick Republican, since they vote that way in the higher profile races. If they register as Republican, they won't be able to vote in the Dem primary for sheriff, tax assessor, etc. like they have been. Once most of those voters can't vote in the Dem primary, most of your local candidates for office will start to run in the Republican primaries. That will lead to a shift in political identification on a massive scale in county and state offices from Democrat to Republican.

The Democrats will remain strong in the Delta and some northern MS counties, but in statewide races the Republicans will begin to dominate on the scale that Dems did from 1865 until the 1990s.

That's just one man's opinion, but you asked.

[KingMaker]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706240318

Ike Brown apparently want's to cleanse the Mississippi Democratic Party of folks like me. :(

So, what does a conservative Democrat do? Should we leave with honor, or be kicked out the front door of this big tent that has gotten so small? Should we join the GOP, only to find ourselves again in the unwelcomed minority opinion?

If the Democratic Party want's a viable state party in Mississippi, they better muzzle this man. He is trouble.


I told you several months ago that this was on the way and you dismissed me. The state democratic party will soon reflect the national party.

Ike Brown is the face and voice of the Democratic Party in Mississippi, weather you like it or not.

[Pirate_129]

As a conservative that almost always votes Republican, I find this to be a great development. I sincerely hope this paves the way for full voter identification. I doubt it does, but one can hope. The time isn't too far off when the "voter ID reminds older black voters of poll taxes and Jim Crow" won't fly as an excuse to prove you are only voting once and in the right place.:clap:

[XC9]

I wish you were right Pirate 129. I would love to see people have to show i.d. to be able to vote. A lady in Il. I know was working the polls and 3 different people came in and gave their address as the house next to hers. She stopped them from voting in that precinct. She informed them that since the same people have lived there for 40 years she knew who her neighbors were. This happened to several people that she happened to know who really lived at the addresses that were given. I was VERY proud of her for standing up to these people and calling it to the attention of higher ups. Supposeably(?) these people were registered by the man running for mayor and were paid $40.00 each to go in and vote under these different addresses. Guess what? After seeing she had the courage to confront these people the man that ran for mayor against the crooked one and won swore my friend in as that cities treasurer. This lady has never been involved in politics her whole life (65 years) and by doing the right thing-she is now their city treasurer. THAT'S COOL!

[Bluesman]

I don't know why you feel you would be in the un welcome minority in the Republican Party... Hey the Dems left you and if you would check you would probably find that you may not be in quite the minority you think you would be in the Rep. party... Check it out. Democrats are goin to neuter all Blue dogs so you better run while you can!:dog: :Headz:

:laugh::laugh:

[BlueDogDemocrat]

Sorry if I came off sounding to bad BDD. Sorry if I came off sounding to Bad it wontwill happen ever again.

No, you didn't come off sounding too bad. Maybe came off sounding kind of drunk yourself, but "not to bad". I can stand the heat, don't worry bout that now.

Despite your comments, I am usually the first to defend my party and what they stand for. But, here, I don't apologize for being honest and expressing concern for the direction of my party. Would you rather me blindly support them, like too many people do in politics?

So, no, you didn't come off to bad. I can take anything you can dish out my little goldfish. Thanks for your input though. :)

[Fish-Bait]

No, you didn't come off sounding too bad. Maybe came off sounding kind of drunk yourself, but "not to bad". I can stand the heat, don't worry bout that now.

Despite your comments, I am usually the first to defend my party and what they stand for. But, here, I don't apologize for being honest and expressing concern for the direction of my party. Would you rather me blindly support them, like too many people do in politics?

So, no, you didn't come off to bad. I can take anything you can dish out my little goldfish. Thanks for your input though. :)

Dang, I thought you would be more harsh than that. The moral of the story is get on one side of the fence or the other.

[Bluesman]

Dang, I thought you would be more harsh than that. The moral of the story is get on one side of the fence or the other.Yeah, that's right, cause if you stay on that fence too long you gonna fall and hurt your worm. Right Fish-Bait?:smt118:laugh:

[Pirate_129]

This is the future of Mississippi Democrats:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060502/060502_votingRights_ccol.vsmall.jpg

ENJOY IT !!

[webster]

Another Ike-ism. . .

(Ike) Brown claims he is the only remaining charter member of the present day Democratic Party who’s still on the executive committee. He said the party would no longer be controlled by conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats — all white — who won’t succumb to pressure from party leaders to conform.

“‘Blue Dogs’ like Eric Clark and Jim Hood, Sheriff Malcolm McMillin, Barbara Dunn, Jack Gordon, etc., have won their last Democratic nomination,” Brown wrote, singling out the secretary of state, attorney general, Hinds County sheriff, Hinds County circuit clerk and state Senate Appropriations Committee chairman.