They just don't get it

Listening to NPR on KCUR briefly today, I heard Richard Viguerie, the longtime Conservative and Republican leader from the party's past.

He was talking about the Republicans and Democrats, of course, and where they've been in the recent past, where they are now and where they're going,

At one point, Mr. Viguerie said that we liberals and Democrats, in the last 2 years before this last Presidential election, totally ran our campaigns against anything and everything concerning George W. Bush. It was his thought that we really didn't have a platform--it was purely all against "W".

Holy cow.

With that kind of thinking--and I hope the Republicans keep it--the Republicans will just stay out of favor with voters. This is why we threw all the Repuglicans out of office, for pity's sake.

What they don't understand, thank goodness, is that we voted against W's government being against us--against the "common man"--the working class man, the man on the street.

It was George W. Bush's Republican government that pitted itself against us, the workers and voters.

When it came to big corporations vs. the little guy--Big Business always won, and there was never any question otherwise.

When it came to the environment--Big Business won out.

When it came to big government or the common man? Big government won again.

The list goes on and on.

So, as I wrote yesterday, by coincidence, we now have government more protecting the environment with higher gas mileage requirements for car manufacturers. Now, we have an EPA that is again trying to clear our air, water and soil of pollution, chemicals and poison.

Are they perfect, these Democrats?

No, decidedly not. But they're working for the man on the street and not just for the corporations and Big Business.

So, yeah, Mr. Viguerie, go on thinking we were just anti-George W. Bush and nothing else.

As long as you and all the other leftover Republicans--however few of you there are--go on thinking like that, you'll stay in the tiny minority in the country.