The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Tony Zbaraschuk:

>Here's what the rightward shift of the Democrats >has given you.
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>1) A GOP controlled congress.

>3) A GOP controlled judicary.

Actually, what this says to me is that the whole country has shifted way to the right, to the extent that the Democrats have been dragged rightward trying to keep up enough votes to even make a showing -- there's not some silent majority of leftist votes out there just waiting for Ralph Nader to be blessed by the ghost of Lyndon Johnson.

Speaking from the Republican side of things, I think the turnaround in the modern conservative movement occurred when Bill Buckley refused to admit the John Birch Society to the National Review.

As long as the Democrats think "no enemies to the left", and try to excuse and justify various fringe insanities, they're not going to be taken seriously by sane people.

(One might note that Clinton didn't get 50% of the vote either -- why? because Ross Perot sniped those votes away on the other side of Bush I...)

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