[GaryL]

Wow! I reqd this article this morning and suddenly I feel a whole lot better! We're in much better shape than we realize, especially if you compare our position twenty yeaers ago, as the author suggests. And twenty years ago there was no such thing as the conservative, alternative news media.

[dangus]

*LOL* Even when the Miami Blather writes a good perspective, it screws the story up. Democrats did not control Congress in 1983... The Republicans has a firm grip on the Senate (54 Senators, and several DINOs), while the Democrats had nominal, but not total control in the House. And the Pubbies' 29 governors is EIGHT more thean the Rats' 21; not five. Lots more errors all over the place.

[Plutarch]

Just turn on the T.V. and try to find a Dem with the least appeal to a muddled moderate. I've not seen any.

I have seen a lot of scary angry Dems trying to outdo themselves in appealing to scary angry liberals.

The Dems should grab the immigration issue. It is there for the taking.

[jordan8]

extreme left-wing interest groups that are pulling the party further away from the mainstream even while America has shifted rightward since Sept. 11.

The idea that the population is shifting rightward is, at the very least, an exaggeration. The majority get their social and political beliefs from the tube. I liken the trends in American politics to a small pendulum swinging on a larger pendulum. The small pendulum may swing left or right, but the larger pendulum is swinging ever to the left with no sign of halting soon, and much of the Republican success is due to their willingness and ability to accommodate that swing. It is more accurate to say that the Republicans, the people, and the Democrats are all swinging to the left, with Democratic activists swinging just a little too far.

[jmstein7]

BTTT!

[Kay Soze]

ping for later.