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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (207134)11/5/2012 1:01:48 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 543652
 
That is interesting. Popkin is saying it is all over but the counting. Then this becomes the Big Question:

After Vice President Walter Mondale lost the 1984 election, the Democratic Party, led by governors in the Democratic Leadership Council, moved toward the center because enough Democratic politicians recognized that the fundamental problem was the party, not the candidate or his campaign. Let's see if enough Republicans can see through the rationalizing myths to save their party in the same way.

I don't know if there are enough guys like Jeb Bush or even Chris Christie left in the party to be able to do this. Indeed, plenty of the "faithful" who think so highly of themselves and so poorly of Democrats have called people like Christie, Bush and others RINOs, and dismiss them out of hand. Some Republicans like Charlie Crist are becoming independents and verge on becoming Democrats, at least Florida-style Democrats, which admittedly is different from a northeastern Democrat. A large part of the party has become so unhinged that they will not follow a politician who actually tries to be responsible to the society as a whole. This is the real legacy of Reagan's "guv'ment is the problem" and the Norquistian nonsense of reducing everything to lower taxes and small government (except of course for the military).
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