[DennyCrane]

I've been screaming this for years. The democrat party has morphed into a loose association of victim groups. These groups have nothing in common other than a) wanting money from the government and b) being gullible enough to believe electing a democrat will fix all their problems.
It's been over 40 years since LBJ began his campaign of promising to fix the woes of victim groups. In the following years (decades) the battlecry is the same. "You need to elect us to fix your problems. You cannot succeed on your own. The fix is in against you. Elect us and we'll make things fair".
Minorities
Women
Environmentalists
Animal rights groups
Unions
Abortionists/stem cell research
What do they have in common? Not a thing. But they flock to the democrat party over and over because there's a promise to save them from being victims. Not a one of them seems to notice that nothing has changed.
Let's think about that.
There's a local cancer hospital, Roswell Park, that has a motto... their goal is to cure cancer and go out of business. If the democrats were sincere, that would be their motto, too. Fix the nations problems and go out of business. But if they fixed all the ills they proclaim the nation suffers, there would be no need for democrats. So, to preserve and grow their power, they merely make promises and perpetuate the feelings of victimhood.
A Republican measures success by how many people get jobs
A Democrat measures success by how many people are receiving government entitlements.
Hell, here in NY, the state government is advertising on the radio how to get signed up for food stamps. Think about that.