Are Democratic politicians really Republicans who could not make the cut?

Question

After all, they do need another party to get elected if they could not make the cut in GOPland.

Answer 1

I love your hypothesis. I think you hit the nail on the head. After all, if Democrats were smart, they would be Republicans.

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Answer 2

Here are some thoughts of the more intelligent poeple from the past about your idea.

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
Abraham Lincoln

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Mark Twain

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
Andrew Jackson

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880- 1956)

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880- 1956 )

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
H L Mencken

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Thomas Paine

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
Will Rodgers

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P.J. O'Rourke

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
James Harvey Robinson

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
André Malraux

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
~John Wolcot

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Unknown

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.
Plato

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
Harold Lowman

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot 1667-1735,

"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."
Edmund Burke

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again"
Thomas Paine

Maybe if we learned the lessons our forefathers were teaching and followed the ancient opinions and rules of life we could see the diffrence betwteen the ridiculous and the sublime for ourselves. Maybe then we would know what port to steer. All our politicians seem to have no clue where that port is or how get there from here. So we are now stuck with "we can't get there from here"! How stupid is that? Maybe we'll get lucky and the 2 parties will die at last from swallowing their own lies!

Answer 3

Democrats are Republicans who would not share when in school.

Answer 4

Obviously you know nothing about the basic philosophies behind each party. They are as different as chalk and cheese.

Answer 5

Considering the top Republican front-runners, Rudy and Mitt, are both blue state, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control, liberals, I would say it's the other way around.

Answer 6

They represent their base well

Answer 7

No they are people who were smart enough to stay away from fascism.

Answer 8

I blame the parent(s).

Answer 9

No.