[LowCountryJoe]

Let me be the contrarian here; I think it might work. The Democrats can smell a major rift in the Conservative Movement between libertarian leaning conservatives and the religious leaning Right. There are a few items of contention between those groups but oddly enough it's key wedge issue is trade and immigration. The Democrats will exploit this somehow - they're not that dumb - and tighten up future political races.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Too right. The Demosocialists are always announce that they are "changing their image." A certain number of people will fall for it.

Of course political parties will shift with the political wind and do anything to get elected. Politics is the science of the simple.

Appeals must be made so that they will be understood by the least sophisticated. Slogans must be short, programs proposed that can be described in a few words. Above all, politics must promise voters FREE, FREE, FREE.

But we must remember that socialists are dedicated to fight any authority above government and so are secular to the core. This attempt by demosocialists to reach out to the religious will fail because it will lack sincerity.

Liberals just cannot say, "I love you Jesus."