Posted on 12/08/2013 4:06:48 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
Remaining intra-party fights only concern how extreme the shift will be, as new militants push the Dems closer to pure socialism. Conviction politicians like Obama and de Blasio have no real interest in compromise. Look at the battle between Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton.
To most sane people, Clinton no longer qualifies as a centrist. Five years ago, her muscular talk on foreign policy made her allies with Robert Gates and John McCain. But her role as front lady for the Obama appease-niks turned her muscles into fat and her policy into mush.
Yet Clinton is insufficiently committed to the movement, according to the Warren cult. And so true believers are pushing St. Elizabeth, she of the Cherokee cheekbones, to run against St. Hillary for the party mantle in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Oh, my.
The entire ‘RAT Party is made up of nothing but far left extremists.
Well duh.
I think Zell Miller was the last of the democrat centrists.
Of course you’ll never hear a word about him again.
Bump
They all went republican, now known as the GOPe.
I'm just turning that image over in my mind. "Hilary's muscles" turned into fat, bwahaha...
The purists have taken over the party of the Left, but they scream like stuck pigs when TEA Party folks make advances in the GOP.
Mmmm Hmmm.
I still find it hilarious that the eneMedia still tries to call some democrats “conservative.”
Depends on the month.
The entire party are “centrists” in even-year Octobers and 1st week November.
Progressives Marxists Communists all other times.
Nope, no centerists. The sort of vetting and winnowing they did to the party in the last 40 years or so precludes any centerists.
They are presently so vetting and winnowing the military hierarchy.
JFK, Hubert Humphry, Daniel Patrick Moynahan...
The rat party invited them in and now they have taken over
The Democrats don’t allow centrists or moderates in their ranks. You’re either fully on board with the hard left, or you’re a traitor to ‘the cause’. You won’t find a single moderate, or (heaven forbid!) conservative in the ranks of their elected reps.
Our side, on the other hand, is filthy with moderates and liberals, both in and out of elected office.
Hey you dummies at the NY Post: there is no such thing as a Democratic Party. I know, I know, you all attended a Journalism school so you write better than an old engineer.
A Republican is someone who is a member of the Republican Party.
A Democrat is someone who is a member of the Democrat (not Democratic!!!) Party and never has been.
There is no such animal as the Democratic Party.
Zell Miller of Georgia and John Breaux of Louisiana were the last Democrat centrists. Even Joe Lieberman dipped his toe into centrism on occasion.
Long before that was Martin Dies D-TX who opposed FDR's Raw Deal and paved the way for Senator Joe McCarthy to bravely (and as it turns out, rightly) fight communism. Likewise James Eastland D-MS was not so bad since he supported Nixon during the trumped up Watergate "scandal" and was strongly against commie fifth columnists.
and the rest have come over to the republican party and are pulling it left as well.
Let us not forget that even Ronaldus Magnus was once a Democrat, until that party left him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.