Why doesn’t the Republican party just disband?
Does this guy remember that the Dems controlled Congress under Reagan?
Yes, it’s funny how he says that in the 80s the democrats were “out of touch”, when in fact they kept winning elections until 1994.
He also believes that the entire 2012 presidential election will be based on the GNP for the year. If that was really the case, he’d be saying that we can only win the White House if we destroy the economy until after the election.
They also moved to the right after the 1994 mid-terms, and the 2006 Dems ran as center-rightists. Even Obama talked about tax cuts and stopping earmarks. I just find it laughable when pundits say conservatism is finished, yet you see Democrats run as conservatives to win elections, and then you have Bartlett (and Powell etc) bloviate that Republicans are losing independents and moderates precisely because of the "hard right" (i.e. conservatism).