Gov Mark Warner gave a great speech to New Hampshire Democrats explaining why he is a Democrat.
http://www.mydd.com/...
details of speech on extended entry
So I am asking people here why they chose the Democratic Party as opposed to the Republican Party. Why do you consider yourself a Democrat?
Gov Mark Warner great speech to New Hampshire Democrats explaining why he is a Democrat can be found in this mydd diary.
http://www.mydd.com/...
...Warner scored his biggest applause of the night when he called out the many reasons why he's a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
"I'm a Democrat because the most noble political experiments of our time were birthed in our party," he said. He described the hundreds of thousands of impoverished Americans he says were saved by the New Deal, and spoke of the households in Africa and South America that still have faded photos of John F. Kennedy on the wall in tribute to the creation of the Peace Corps.
"I'm a Democrat because fighting for the working men and working women in our country is always the right fight," he said. "I'm a Democrat because of the struggle for civil rights - we were the party that led that struggle, and we must acknowledge that discrimination and bigotry are not dead in this country. And we must always redouble our efforts to make sure everyone gets a fair share."
Warner seemed determined to hit all the highlights in the history of the party, from Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence, to Roosevelt and Truman defeating fascism. The applause built steadily, hitting a crescendo as Warner brought his reasons for being a Democrat into the present.
"I'm a Democrat because when my three almost-perfect daughters go out into the world to make their lives, I want them to find a world where there's less hopelessness, less selfishness and less violence; where there's more opportunity, more understanding, more hope,"he said. "Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Democrats, we've got a lot of work to do. Let's make it happen."