[randog]

Something is going to give, the dems are going to have a split or slowly sink into obscurity. I can't imagine the conservative/moderate dems will just sit and watch this happen, they will split off from the dems to form a new party.

Another freeper suggested about a month ago that the real ideological debate will shift from liberalism vs. conservatism to libertarianism vs. conservatism. I don't know if this is wishful thinking on the part of a libertarian, but it seems to me like it could happen.

[eno_]

Another freeper suggested about a month ago that the real ideological debate will shift from liberalism vs. conservatism to libertarianism vs. conservatism. I don't know if this is wishful thinking on the part of a libertarian, but it seems to me like it could happen.

People often mistake me for a "Libtertarian." I'm barely even a small-l libertarian. I am a Constitutionalist. So, unless you have a death-grip on the Drug War, which I oppose for the damage it does to states' rights and to the Constitution, not for any libertarian ideology, conservatism and COnstitutionalism can get along just fine. If the Republicans take federalism seriously, and take undoing the New Deal seriously, I really won't care if legal pot happens tommorow or in 100 years.

[gcruse]

Another freeper suggested about a month ago that the real ideological debate will shift from liberalism vs. conservatism to libertarianism vs. conservatism.

I wrote Reinventing Libertaria for the Washington dispatch a couple of months ago.
This may be what you are thinking of.

In a country moving perceptibly to the right, does a retrenched, leftist Democratic Party open up middle ground for its own replacement to the right? <snip>