[areafiftyone]

How did the left take over?

With the help of Communist organizations like "Move On" which have millions of dollars donated to them by Foreign communist organizations. They have used the internet to their advantage and have recruited thousands of young people who will do anything they say because "IT'S COOL" and not because they really believe in anything that they tell them. Most of them probably won't even vote in the election anyway.

[princess leah]

When conservatives, like myself, started becoming more active after the Democrats tried to steal the election in 2000, the liberals also came out from under their collective rocks and sent guys like Carville, Begala, Pelosi, Hillary, etc to become screetching machines for the left! They cannot see that their hatred for Bush is their downfall...

[JustPlainJoe]

Carter a leftist, but Bill Clinton, a CENTRIST?!?

AlGore and Hillary- MOVING to the left?!?

Where has this guy been? Or is it me?

[FFIGHTER]

That happened a long-time ago.

[nathanbedford]

a period in which the party controlled the White House for only four out of 20 years, when Jimmy Carter, a moderate southerner, was president.

I am speachless.

[ClearCase_guy]

The moderates ran the Democratic Party from 1960 to 1972. Then the left took over, ruling until 1992 — a period in which the party controlled the White House for only four out of 20 years, when Jimmy Carter, a moderate southerner, was president. Capitalizing on their failures, the centrists regained ascendancy in 1992 with the nomination of Bill Clinton.

So, McGovern in 1972 was a moderate?
Jimmy Carter in 1976 was a moderate?
Mondale was a screaming leftist?
Dukakis was a screaming leftist?
Bill Clinton was a centrist?

Morris is just talking without making sense.

[wesdale]

The more liberal the Democrat party becomes, the more moderates the Republican party absorbs. How will this fare for Republican conservatives? Are we to expect more massive spending and entitlements in the future (passed by Republican moderates)?

Increasingly, the credible political debate is occuring within the Republican party.

[Catalonia]

A vicious circle sets in. Moderates, repelled by the liberal stances of the Democratic Party, will move to Republican ranks and abandon their Democratic affiliation.

Not quite. It's more like moderate Democrats move into the ranks of Independents and vote for moderate Republicans, and right-of-center Independents actually become Republicans for the first time. That's what I'm seeing, anyway.

[KSCITYBOY]

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[brownsfan]

I love this quote from Ronald Reagan, I'm not sure it's word for word, but he said something to the effect:

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me.

It's how I feel exactly.

[Cicero]

Much of this is a matter of perception and PR, rather than reality. Morris was the expert on "triangulation," and he was largely responsible for clinton's re-election. If you really look at them, ALL the Democrats have been leftists. Jimmuh Carter never saw a Communist Dictator he didn't like. Harry Truman handed China to the Communists. FDR had a cabinet full of Communists and gave Eastern Europe to Stalin.

Although they are all leftists, the real difference is that some of them have pretended to be moderates, with assiduous help from the media, while others have screamed out their leftist views.

It's not that Hillary has moved to the left. She was always a Communist. It's just that she is currently talking out of the left side of her mouth.

[dirtboy]

How did the left take over?

They were always in power. They just pretended to be moderates.

[sly671]

The only way Democrats can win in an election anymore (Clinton) is to convince everyone they are Republican. Clinton was the last and hopefully it will stay that way.

[Davea]

The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Monti Cello]

The real truth will be told when the party attempts its cyclical correction, but is unable because the principled (socialist) loyalists are unable to reconcile with the folks who realize what it takes to win an election.

We aren't witnessing the bottoming of a 20-year political cycle for the Dems, more like a 100-year cycle, which equals death for a political ideology and party.

This is simply our version of the destruction of socialism as a hypothesis for how things work.

[Bob J]

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[MattAMiller]

It seems to me that the McAuliffe/Clinton folks are riding a tiger that they bred, fed, and raised. They've tried to make every single election into a Bush hatefest. And the only thing that's done is lose elections and fire up the far left.

[eleni121]

Bill and Hillary and peoos among many others in the Demoncratic party were students of Marxist Saul Alinsky and for this moron to say they are centrists proves nothing but his own stupidity.

http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm