[Reagan is King]

Old toe sucker makes some good points. The Dems may be out of power for quite awhile unless the Republicans find a way to blow it.

[Aeronaut]

I'm not a big Morris fan, but this one seems to make some sense.

[Noumenon]

This is, of course, one the hallmarks of a nation headed for open civil war. 2004 will bea watershed year in that respect.

[Always Right]

Old toe sucker makes some good points. The Dems may be out of power for quite awhile unless the Republicans find a way to blow it.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is a GOP trademark.

[Michael.SF.]

As the left gains power, only to be defeated in '04, Hillary will be the beneficiary in '08. She has successfully manuevered herself to be percieved as a moderate, when she is anything but that.

Hillary will be tough to defeat in '08, make no mistake on that.

How about a "Bush-Rice" ticket in '04 followed by a "Rice-Watts" ticket for the GOP in '08?

[samtheman]

In the RAT party, it's Survival of the Leftest.

[tkathy]

I think he makes terrific points. Extremists seem to be out to destroy both parties.

[areafiftyone]

Already posted yesterday The Left has taken over the Democratic Party

[RebelBanker]

Repeat. The earlier thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042894/posts

[LibWhacker]

. . . the centrists regained ascendancy in 1992 with the nomination of Bill Clinton.

Morris keeps making the point that Clinton was a centrist. And I've heard it from others, too. NOBODY in their right mind can make that claim!

[Digger]

Dickie doesn't compare how far the right has moved toward the liberals. If JFK & GW were running who would be the more conservative?

[narby]

A Dean candidacy can be a real threat to the country. The Reps like the idea, because they think they can beat him like a drum.

But the real danger is the exposure of the 30-40% of the electorate who will vote for any Dem candidate to hard core leftisim. Just look what happened after McGovern's loss in 72. As Morris states, the Dems were taken over by the left, and we're still dealing with the problems of that now.

They couldn't beat Nixon at the polls, but they certianly did run him out of town for trivial misdeads only a few years later.

I think I'll re-register and a Dem and vote for someone other than Dean in the primary.

[BenLurkin]

"The left has taken over the Democratic Party"

Well, no kidding. Careful or this thread might be moved to chat.

8^)

[Recovering_Democrat]

This is a headline? For Gods sakes...

[Paradox]

Also posted HERE.

[Capt. Tom]

The Dems may be out of power for quite awhile unless the Republicans find a way to blow it.

Fortunately for the dumb, inept gutless republicans, the Bushies are in charge. -Tom

[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.

[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?!

[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.

[lilylangtree]

Clintoon is a "centrist"? Since when?