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I like how we're dealing the Blue Dogs a couple of blows, too. The more liberal-dominated the Democrat caucus, the faster they self-destruct.

We convert Hall, get rid of Stenholm, Sandlin, and Turner, hopefully take over Lucas's district (Kentucky), and beat Baron Hill (IN) or Lincoln Davis (TN) or Dennis Moore (KS) or Jim Matheson (UT). There are a couple other districts that we can expect to pick up when they come open: Oberstar and Peterson's in Minnesota, Spratt's in South Carolina.

there is no way Oberstar's district is going Republican in the next 20 years at least. It's been Democrat since the 50's, voted for Gore by a fairly wide margin, and has voted for Democrats in virtually every other race as well, it was where Humphrey had the best showing in his 3 way governor's race in 1998, since most of the people are party loyalists rather than the liberals who were drawn in by Jesse's socially liberal views. It also has Duluth, which is a pretty liberal city, and no way to neutralize that. Oberstar's hardly a blue dog anyway, he may be pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise he's your typical socialist, leftist extremist democrat.

Peterson's is a toss up. The people there are like the Dakotas, they're pretty nonpartisan. Yet somehow it takes a Dem as conservative as Peterson to win there but the Dakotas elect full blown socialists. I've never been able to figure that out. But I don't think he'll be leaving for awhile anyway.

And Moore is anything but a Blue Dog, he's definately a liberal, he only has a 20 from the ACU. He even supports partial birth abortion. How he survives there is a mystery.

You bring up a good point. The sooner we beat their moderates, the faster Democrats become an extremist party that is intolerant and unfriendly towards any kind of centrism. There will be no one in their own party who can counsel moderation and they will go careening Left, out of control. I look forward to that.