[finnigan2]

"Lack of principles on the other side got them where they wanted and now they're telling the public what they think it wants to hear."

- Exactly. You just can't "hide" a major plank in your Party platform and pretend to the voters that it's no longer something that's important. The Dems have to purge it's senior ranks of all the pro abortion activists and publicly distance itself from associated groups such as Planned Parenthood as a start in convincing voters that it's a real policy shift and not just an election tactic.

[fire_eye]

They're stuck. They can't abandon their "Conshituencies"; all they can do is try to find a way to respin themselves in the media to "reposition" themselves.

We shouldn't even be debating whether they'll actually change - they don't deserve credit for being capable of change, because they're not. Instead, we should be strategizing what we can do to force them to continue to tear themselves apart internally.