[lbo-talk] Reps *hate* Hillary

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 10/24/07, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:14 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > You may have noticed that almost all the Rep candidates claim they
> > don't believe in evolution, would double the size of Gitmo, and would
> > privatize Medicare. If the Dems have become the moderate Reps of a
> > generation ago, the Reps have gone off to another planet.
>
> I think this strengthens my case. If the Ds have moved into the Rs
> ecological niche, then the Rs have to open new territory, right?

Don't we think this reverses the cause-effect relationship? Dems have
to move into old R territory in order to appear (or, heaven* forfend,
be) something like moderate.

j

* this term used purely as part of a figure of speech. no belief in
"heaven" stated or implied.