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"That the hysteria evokes a caricature of Bush positions scarcely needs to be elaborated; the electorate recognizes this well enough. In this day and age, no one is going to outlaw all abortions, and the electorate is happy to impose more limits, as on the gruesome partial-birth procedures. The Bush judicial nominees are safely in the mainstream, unlike the San Francisco judges of the Ninth Circuit, who the other day received three summary reversals by a unanimous Supreme Court. A lot of people aspire to join "the rich," and indeed longitudinal studies show that they do move up the income ladder. Anyway, the top half of taxpayers pay 96% of the income tax. Social Security reform, with recipients investing some of their tax money in stocks and bonds, has been tried successfully in Chile and also Great Britain. Far from being radical, that is, the agenda of the Bush GOP represents today's only reform agenda. And it is rapidly occupying the mainstream, both politically and intellectually. Liberal hysteria is a symptom that at some level liberals understand this themselves. The recent elections represented only a small tilt toward Republicans, after all, but it looks like an eruption because the volcano has been rumbling ever since Ronald Reagan arrived in 1980."
November 2004 could be the death-knell of the DemonRAT Party, IMHO.
Gleeful FReegards...MUD