[Aristotelian]

This is one of the better reads that I've come across lately. Reading the full text is well worth the time.

Tucker concludes that the Democrats have now whittled down to two constituencies -- African Americans and liberal intellectuals.

Most important is the author's observation that McCain will win over the same blue-collar voters that Hillary is now getting with her attacks on Obama. Hillary, in other words, is laying the foundation for a McCain victory. You gotta love it!!!!!

[Caipirabob]

we may be witnessing the final demise of the New Deal.

Fear not, the RINOs in the Republican party are waiting to carry the banner.

And full blown Stalinism is what the democrats are about these days. The "new deal" was simply "fear of commitment".

[gridlock]

But Republicans are team players -- they know how to lose gracefully and close ranks. Huckabee just announced he will be campaigning for McCain this fall. It was a perfect Republican gesture.

This guy doen't know many FReepers!

[G.Mason]

" ... You gotta love it!!!!! "

As a Conservative, I must say that there is absolutely nothing to love about any one of these three imbiciles.

In fact they are all without any social redeeming value.

That would, by definition, be one of the examples in defining pornography.

Got any extacy to go with these whores?

[TheWasteLand]

Good article. Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man is a great book. Couple it with Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism and they will blast apart everything you think you know about the first half of the 20th Century in America (they did for me at least).

[Rudder]

Hillary's votes come from the Democrats' other constituency -- blue-collar workers, Catholics, and people without a college education.

Prior to Texas she had no constituency, now she's a contender. Operation Chaos is working!

Unfortunately.

[norton]

It all sounds good.

But the unfortunate fact is that we will likely end up with a liberal administration (calling itself Republican) with two very chagrined factions snarling at it's heels for the entire four years (or so).

The most likely result will be an even more liberal McCain presidency and an even more isolated (and ticked off) conservative base.

[libertylover]

A good read but I find it hard to believe Obama will win Mississippi.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I’d love the demise of the democrat party if the republican party wasn’t waiting to snatch up the banner of neo-liberalism and rush it triumphantly over the leftern horizon.

Bobama and the Beast suck, but I wouldn’t vote for Mcloon if you paid me a million bucks.

[SauronOfMordor]

Tucker concludes that the Democrats have now whittled down to two constituencies -- African Americans and liberal intellectuals.

Let's not forget the ever-increasing ranks of civil-service union members

[Jack Black]

Smoot-Hawley did not cause the depression, as much as Free Trade advocates like to claim that. It probably didn’t help it much, but it was absurd mondetary policy at the Federal Reserve Bank that caused the Depression. Our current Fed chairman is an expert on that, having taught corses on the subject. He, among many other mainstream economists, believes the Fed caused the depression with monetary policy. (Essentially reducing the money supply by 1/3 in a single year)