The left has taken over the Democratic Party

The Hill News ^ | 12-17-2003 | Dick Morris

[Poincare]

Hillary goes to Iraq and then signs up for every Sunday talk show to blast President Bush and the war. Gore backs Dean to court favor with the liberal anti-war faction that has taken over.

It's clear to me that Gore is not interested in Dean but in Dean's supporters. It is also clear that he made his move after Hillary spent the previous weekend before the media. There are only two serious Dem candidates for POTUS, Gore and Hillary. What I can't figure for sure is whether the race is in 2004 or 2008. If it is in 2004 then Dean will be removed from the picture--possibly as a martyr. Night of the long knives.

[chudogg]

With a republican congress and elections in 1996, Clinton was forced to take some centrist positions reluctantly, like welfare reform and balancing the budget. If he had his way he would be to the left Dean!

[Post Toasties]

Is it too early to talk about 2008?

[theFIRMbss]

>The left has taken over the Democratic Party
>> The Dems may be out of power for quite awhile unless the Republicans find a way to blow it

And can you tell me
exactly who is running
the Republicans?

The "religious right"
isn't -- hence constant "restraint"
urged on Irael...

Libertarians
aren't in charge -- hence their whines
about terror laws...

Real conservatives
ain't driving -- hence socialized
medicine still grows...

So, yes, Democrats
seem totally out of touch.
But who is in charge?!

[atlaw]

"The left has taken over the Democratic Party"

"Well, no kidding."

My thoughts exactly. This is news in much the same way that "sun rises in east" is news.

[cinFLA]

WJC and WC have a deal. Run him this time to gain exposure and then run him as vp in 2008.

[G.Mason]

All good points.

[Noumenon]

The polarization of the Left is all to the good, in my view. It serves to bring their self-hatred out into the open. IT's that self-hatred that they project on to the rest of us.

One third of the American public needs to see the face of evil. That's the somnambulent one-thinrd who are pre-occupied with their finances and their genitalia. They're in the process of getting a rude wake-up call. As if Sept 11th wasn't enough.

Let the enemy within step forward and be recognized for who and what they are. Then let us deal with them.

[ex-snook]

"The left has taken over the Democratic Party "

Hey - They took them over before WW II, even had Wallace as a VP for Roosevelt. Now the left is doing a take over of the Republican Party using the neo-con descendents of those that took over the Democrat Party. The liberals are on a roll.

[Reagan is King]

Sorry area, didn't mean to dup your post. I searched by exact title and must have scrolled by it somehow. Time for that eye exam I've been putting off...

[areafiftyone]

That's okay I have been doing it all day and have gotten my share of people yelling at me today for it.

[Michael.SF.]

WJC and WC have a deal. Run him this time to gain exposure and then run him as vp in 2008.

And WJC is a man who's word can be taken as a solemn vow, right?

Clark was a trial ballon, nothing more. If he rises to the occassion and takes off in popularity a Clark-Clinton ticket was/is a possibility. But the Clinton's would accept that only if they know Clark will lose.

If Clark fails as a potential candidate this year, then the Clinton's will cross him off of their list of potential VP candidates for 2008.

Clark is looking more and more like an boob, who has no real potential to be President. He would bring nothing to the party in '08, from the Clinton's POV.

[lilylangtree]

Clintoon is a "centrist"? Since when?

[San Jacinto]

Just my opinion, but...I don't think gore intends to jump in the 2004 race. I'm not so sure about hillary.

If dean gets the nomination and loses big to Bush, then there figures to be a big gore vs. hillary fight in 2008. gore might be a better candidate for the general election than hillary, but I don't see him beating her in the 'Rat primaries.

As to your other point-- if some tragedy did befall dr. dean during the campaigning process, I agree that would raise some very interesting posible scenarios.

[WOSG]

Yeah, but it seems the Dems are learning how to be failures quite well these days.

Our job as conservatives will be to keep the majority GOP party a conservative party, for the good of the country .. AND, to make sure we do everything we can to keep the Democrats away from power anywhere and everywhere.

[WOSG]

Clark's going nowhere, this looks more and more like Dean's to lose, and no other candidate has the ooomph to stop him.
Certainly not the perfumed prince.

[uncbob]

The left has taken over the Democratic Party

This has been true for as long as I can remember

[Banjoguy]

Remember..triangulation is the scheme most often used by The Clntoons. They're setting us up for in 2008 it as we speak.

[bobjam]

The collapse of the Whig Party is seen as one of the political steps leading to the Civil War. Could a democratic collapse bring a similar fate?

[yoe]

This comes as no suprise, sort of a non-story to those of us who have been paying attention. MRS. CLINTON IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE SOCIALIST WITH VERY MARKED MARXIST LEANINGS Algore is like Tofu, he takes on whatever flavor is in favor today....

This next should warm the cockles of our little Freeper hearts,
Did you hear what call sign they used for Hillary's Blackhawk during her tour in Iraq?

"BROOMSTICK 1"