[goldstategop]

The liberals are not happy seeing their dream candidate morph into the man they hate!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Diogenesis]

"If the MSM EVER reported the news or truth
(did they even mention the 500 tons of Yellowcake moved?)
the liberals are would not happy seeing their dream candidate morph into the man they hate! "

[sphinx]

The liberals believe, as do most of us, that Obama's moderate gambits are not serious, that his "move to the middle" is just boob bait for the muddled yahoos who are apt to vote for whomever sings the prettiest song.

This reminds me of 1992. I talked myself hoarse trying to tell people that BillyJeff wasn't serious about his three signature issues in that campaign: a middle class tax cuts, "ending welfare as we know it," and balancing the budget. All were Republican themes, and all served to peel away soft Republican voters who were frustrated with Mr. Read My Lips.

BillyJeff was elected. The middle class tax cut turned into a massive tax increase. "Ending welfare as we know it" turned into an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (which the Clintonites also scored as a tax cut). And Clinton dropped entirely any attempt to balance the budget; he never proposed a balanced budget nor a glide path towards one. Welfare reform and a balanced budget were of course driven by Gingrich and Armey in '95-96, with Clinton as the main opponent, and after they were done Clinton took credit, but that's another story.

What Clinton demonstrated is that Democrat voters are now essentially tribal. Issues don't matter as long as a couple of big identity politics taboos are observed. The Democrats are motivated two things: the promise of payoffs and, probably even more, resentment of a scapegoated opponent. Obama can reverse himself as many times as he wants; most dems won't care.