I heard once that Rove's goal is not to turn every Democrat into a Republican, but to completely do away with the idea of a Democrat. Everyone will be 'conservative' under one big umbrella, just different "degrees" of conservative.
Which would explain why some things the president has done will anger the hard right, and most things will anger the hard left.
Not sure how I feel about this goal. Of course who wouldn't want to completely do away with the concept of a Democrat, but do we really want to spread conservatism so thin that it encompasses everything to the left of the middle?
Bump.