“They fortified themselves with a few thoughts: Hillary would be the 2008 nominee, and Obama’s 2004 convention speech proved the party had a bright centrist future because both were pragmatists.”
Centrists? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Both Obama and Hillary are Marxists. Despite his position, she still gets more women than him. She got more than Bill.
Centrists. Yeah, about spit up on my keyboard on that one.
I'm with you. What's with this resurrected, antique "Blue Dog DLC Centrist" canard? That went out the window in 1993 with DADT and the beginnings of Hillarycare, which Beastie began whomping up in a locked room, Soviet-style.
What was centrist about anything the Klintonx did when they thought they were high in the saddle?
The only thing they did that was "centrist" was to listen to Bob Rubin at Treasury and not do anything to crash the 30-year T-bond market. And Slick was pretty unhappy about being schooled on that by Rubin, who knew what he was doing. (In between pulling his private chestnuts out of various fires he'd started while still over at his Goldman, Sachs CEO job.)
Slick Willie pouted at having to do small-scale, "deal of the day" mini-initiatives to try to control the news headlines, when he wanted to let 'er rip like Landslide Lynt'n.
Wonder who Zito's been talking to. They sure have a funny-colored Hall of Mirrors prism they're looking through.