By Keith Brock
November 6, 2009
Blue Dog Democrats are the ones who tend to embrace some conservative ideology. You might call them right of the center of the democratic party. Typically, they tend to be more universally conservative on fiscal issues and have less consensus on social issues.
Where did the term "Blue Dog" come from? The term “yellow dog democrat” arose in the 1800s to describe people in the South who would vote for a yellow dog before they voted for a Republican.So the term “Blue Dog Democrats” was derived from this earlier usage, but why the term blue? Well, the idea is that conservative democrats for the longest time have been choked out of the party by the left extreme. When you get choked, you turn blue. So the idea is that the Blue Dog Democrats have been choked blue by the extreme left and have now formed coalition to fight back.
This is the time to contact the Blue Dogs if we are going stop this trillion-dollar-boondoggle Health Care Bill. There are other issues, such as Cap and Trade and immigration we will need to keep pressure on them about. They are vulnerable in 2010 and need the independent vote. In fact, they should be very frightened about right now because you can measure when their political career ends by looking at the clock and adding up the hours to the next Election Day.
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You can lead a horse to whisky but you can't make him drink. Now it's your turn! Good Luck!
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