On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Realignment on which side? Perhaps the said "luminaries" are fed up
> with the redneck populism that Karl Rove and his cronies brought to
> the Repug party and try to re-align themselves away from it, no?
Further evidence in favor of Adolph Reed's realignment thesis: Obama wants to peel off the respectable right to make a broadly centrist party, with the extremes of left and right left to fend for themselves.