Anna Quindlen Quotes
The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.
Anna Quindlen, Columnist, Interview, PBS, The Charlie Rose Show, October 11, 2006
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He was discussing the Presidential Primary Race.
Carter philosophically did not see his role as the head of his party anywhere near as important as his Presidential role. At the same time, Carter had forged Congressional majority support from a coalition of conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans. However, that alienated him even more from the liberal Democrats who even fielded Ted Kennedy as a primary candidate against him. Carter won the nomination but lost many of his own party for the general election and he lost to Ronald Reagan.
Prior to Johnson’s civil rights efforts, the South virtually always voted for Democrats in all elections. The only political competition was for the Democratic Party Primaries. The term “Solid South” meant that it was solid for the Democratic Party. But after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, the racist whites who used to be Democrats switched and joined the genuine traditional conservative and created a Republican Southern majority that was as solid for the GOP as the Democrats had ever enjoyed.
The Republicans lost the Congressional election of 2006. See {616069}.
Republican candidates at that time, in order to win the nomination of the party, had to prove to the base of primary voters that they were strong conservatives. In doing so, they had to adopt policies and views that were too far to the right for most American voters and they would lose the general election.
On why he joined the Republican party:
Democratic Speaker of the Oklahoma House Jim Barker was so heavy-handed that his own party members combined to unseat him:
Anna Marie Quindlen is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
