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I disagree. The Dems have been far-left ever since JFK. Jimmy Carter, a moderate???? Puh_leeeezzz. Clinton just played a moderate to get elected, and Gore tried to follow suit. They are both far-leftists at heart, just read Gore's book. The country has been moving further right. More people are going to Church and at the same time more people are leaving the more liberal Churches. Bush ran a fairly conservative campaign, but unfortunately is governing like a moderate domestically. What Bush needs to learn is that none of his attempts to appeal to the moderates have done a bit of good. Nobody likes his prescription drug benefit, his steel terrifs backfired, he gets no credit for the Kennedy lead education bill. Bush needs to govern to the right more if he wants to be successful.

Not entirely. There is a book out there---forget the title---on the creation of the DLC. In fact, the Dems were very concerned about crime and welfare (which were the two hot-button issues of the late 80s early 90s), and many of the Algore/Clinton crime proposals were targeted at taking away those issues from the GOP.

I agree Clinton and Algore are complete libs; but they repressed that for a time and tried to appear "Centrist," something Dean has abandoned completely.

...Bush needs to govern to the right more if he wants to be successful.

I agree that the Dems have straddled the left and far left since Johnson right up to the boy Clinton. As far as Bush goes, you and me wish he would govern to the right more, however...

The game plan seems to be to take all the big issues away from the Dems, such as Medicare, prescription drugs, etc. This is a strategy outlined by David Horowitz of frontpagemag.com. While it has the effect of annoying the conservative base, it forces the Dems to rally around left and far left issues. The Dems are losing the center rapidly, as anticipated. This is a long term strategy that seems to be working. Yet I get ill to think that the Pubs are now the party of limited?!? big government.

This strategy begs the question of when will the Republicans start cutting government. If those in leadership would simply hold the spending at the current level for the next 10 years, that would effectively cut the government, slowly, indeed.