re: #102 HappyWarrior

Yep. And you know what was interesting to me. Ted Cruz was asked how he would win a general election. He said “Reagan Democrats.” It occurred to me that the absolute youngest Reagan Democrat will be turning 50 the year of the election. These guys have no originality. Obama created his own coalition instead of trying to be another Bill Clinton or FDR.

What gets me about that is that the Reagan Democrats were something that you would never see in the GOP today: People who felt that the party was moving too far to the margin and so rebelled by supporting the other party that presented itself as more “reasonable.” Even the most “moderate” Republicans I meet today still insist that, come hell or high water, they will pull the lever for a Republican next year.