Here’s an interesting article by Jay Ambrose that has us wondering if a “Great Tipping Point” is upon us.

This is a phrase we hear used a lot lately — and even employed by Bill Daley in an Op-Ed letter written this week as a warning to Democrats that the nation is set to turn against them, in a big and irrevocable way, because the Democrat Party is defining itself as the party of:

* profligate spending

* race-baiting

* irresponsibility

* invasive government

* freedom stealing

* socialism

* enemy of small business

We are an interesting point of argument for a “Great Tipping Point” ourselves.  One of the reasons we have kept this site going is that this is a journal, of sorts, of the political evolution of a set of diehard, lifelong, take-no-prisoners Democrats who now look upon the Democrat Party as a foreign and alien thing we want nothing to do with.

All of this happened in less than two years.

We went from being guys who walked out on blind dates if we found out the person in front of us was a Republican, to being people who have more Republican and Independent friends today than Democrats.  In fact, the majority of people we know who used to call themselves “Democrat” now identify as Independent.  The course the DNC set in backing Dr. Utopia and forcing his nomination alienated more lifelong Dems than the party chooses to realize.

We still call ourselves “Democrat” when pressed, out of cultural memory and nostalgia we guess.  It’s the same way, when pressed, we’d say we’re “Catholic”, because that’s how we grew up, that’s the school we went to, though we haven’t set foot in a church in a great while.  We loved John Paul the Great as Pope, but never listen to a damn thing Pope Benedict says.  We don’t like him, don’t have any priests or nuns here in Chicago we especially like, and don’t feel compelled to come running whenever church bells ring in our neighborhood.

It’s the same with the Democrat Party.  We love the Clintons, and we will do anything for them as long as we live.  We do not like or support the current Democrat president, however.  We don’t back his agenda, and we truly believe he is driving this country into the ground on his narcissistic quest to become “President of the World”. As of the latest vote on Healthcare Rationing, there are also no longer any Democrats in the Senate or House that we support, either.

Frankly, the whole lot of them can take a flying leap for all we care.  We’d love to see each and every one of them lose their seats in upcoming elections, because that Healthcare Rationing bill is unconstitutional as written, and one of them should have had the guts to stand up to the current president, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to shut it down so things could start over and the bill could be written properly.

Because Democrats in the Senate, especially, rushed through a bill they didn’t have time to read, when they have no idea how this is really going to impact Americans, just so they could run home for Christmas and declare victory, we intend to do everything we can to see to it all of these people lose their jobs.

The reason for that is clear to us, in one word:  incompetence.

Never in our lives did we dream we would be at this juncture, wanting to see Congress swept clean of Democrats at the first available juncture.

What was once a centrist party is now the party of corruption, the party of backroom deals and massive, in-your-face bribes.  Anything in Nebraska currently named after Ben Nelson needs to be re-named, pronto. The Great Whore of the Senate has brought massive shame to his state.  We’d say the same thing about Mary Landrieu, but with people like Ray Nagin in elected office in Louisiana, her bribe was pretty much business as usual.

The Democrat Party is revealing itself as a collection of crooks who want to steal as much money from the hardworking as possible, to hand it out as welfare to the lazy and incompetent, and to reward loyal voting blocs.  There is zero concern whatsoever for the country itself.

Just as Nelson struck a deal so Nebraska would stop paying its fair share for Medicare, foisting that bill onto other states, so Democrats want hardworking people to pay to cover the bills incurred by the laziest members of their voting blocs.

That’s shameful, and unacceptable in our eyes. We want no part of a party that operates this way, and rewards such bad behavior.

We do not, however, think Republicans are tough enough.  They aren’t fighting socialism hard enough.  The GOP is not offering up a solid enough rebuke of Democrats’ behavior, with a firm battle plan to take back the country and set us all on a course towards prosperity again.

If Republicans did that, we don’t know where we’d end  up on the spectrum, but think we’d be able to culturally stop calling ourselves Democrats at all if things reached that point.

What’s interesting to us, in thinking about our own journey these last two years, is the fact that we WERE such partisan Dems, and now we look upon the Democrat Party with great disgust.

So, what about all the Americans truly in the middle, who had no strong allegiance either way?

How do THEY feel about Democrats now?

Are things bad enough that they’re ready to run to the Republicans in droves like they did in 1980?

Have we reached that cultural tipping point?

What do you think?