[narby]

Bush might be able to pound Dean like a drum. But it will still be a tragedy to have 6 months of hard core liberalisim promoted by the Democratic media and swallowed whole by the 30-40% hard core Democratic voters.

This campaign, even if Dean looses, could set the stage for a hard left turn in general public.

That is unless Bush beats them so bad, and gets a 60 seat majority in the Senate, that the Dems completly implode and go the way of the Whigs.

What will they call their new party?

[WOSG]

Bush might be able to pound Dean like a drum. But it will still be a tragedy to have 6 months of hard core liberalisim promoted by the Democratic media and swallowed whole by the 30-40% hard core Democratic voters. This campaign, even if Dean looses, could set the stage for a hard left turn in general public. That is unless Bush beats them so bad, and gets a 60 seat majority in the Senate, that the Dems completly implode and go the way of the Whigs. What will they call their new party?

This is an excellent point. It's not so much that general opinion will be hard left, but the Democrat party will, and by the law of political gravity, it will pull our political center to the left... this is the opposite of how Goldwater's defeat helped build a conservative core in the Republican party.

The cure is for there to be a defeat not only of Dean, but of his IDEAS and all those associated with him. Then the party will have no power.