re: #455 Obdicut

Please stop putting words in my mouth. You are better than this. I have never claimed that he would be embraced by the progressives, so why pretend that I have? Where does that get you?

Obdi, you are trying to make the point that Patrick Moynihan would be perfectly acceptable as candidate today.

Sad as it is, that just isn’t true.

Can you imagine Humphrey or Scoop Jackson running as Dems today? Or even Jack or Bobby Kennedy? Tax cuts, anti leftist ideologies, etc?

Like the GOP, the Dems have moved away from the center and there isn’t enough lipstick in the world that can change those political realities.