Will Democrats act like center right moderates and piss off the left wing loons that make up the bulk of their fundraising and organizational / propaganda wings, or act like they did from 1992-1994, ram through a bunch of tax hikes and left wing social engineering programs and get shellac’ed in the midterm elections?

Sgt_ROCK:

Will Democrats act like center right moderates and piss off the left wing loons that make up the bulk of their fundraising and organizational / propaganda wings, or act like they did from 1992-1994, ram through a bunch of tax hikes and left wing social engineering programs and get shellac’ed in the midterm elections?

Which would you prefer?

..you can BET you've done it before, and probably more than once. And will do it many more times before election day.

Yawwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn

If they went to the Left (silly prediction to start with), Blue Dogs would be the SAFEST Dems, not the ones most in danger.

But of course, Righties can only see the Right side of the picture, that's your weakness...:)

How many sitting Republicans switched party alleigence in 2006?

How many Democrats switched in 1994? (about 30)

But I do agree, that it is not likely the Democrats will go too far Left, BECAUSE of the Blue Dogs.

But, as Sarge said...the Left Wing provides the DNC not only their "Base," but also a lot of financial support.

Gonna be a tough tight rope the Dems have to walk, and they can "fall of" either side, pissing the other side off....

IYou'll probably get "A" or at least "mostly" A.

I think that for two reasons.

First, this notion that the "fundraisining" and "proganda" apparatus belongs to the far left is innaccurate. That hasn't been true for some time. And frankly, the Obama campaign is reinventing both of these. Obviously it's politically obligatory for Republicans to present Obama as some extreme Marxist (Ayers?) But he's not - he's moderate and consensus-oriented and always has been. Even Hilary is way more of an idealogue than Obama. Obama understands that the 1960s are over. Thankfully. It's not an accident that groups like "Moveon.org" were very slow to embrace Obama.

Second, a lot of the Democrats in Congress are the "Blue Dog" variety. It wasn't like that in 1992.

I think that less than two years after the election of Obama, you'll hear the extreme leftists crying about how Obama "betrayed" them. At the same time right wing nut jobs will still be whining about absolutely everything that he does.

That's when you'll know we're on the right track.