Fred Brown offers up some analysis of the recent election in his column in today's Denver Post. He writes, "After the 2004 election, a number of hard-line Democrats complained they'd never win again unless the party 'returned to its base.' Go left, in other words. Democrats should stop trying to act like Republicans, the argument went. To heck with the Clintonesque "third way"; forget moderation and accommodation. Now we're hearing similar noise from the right. The Republicans have taken "a thumpin'," as the president articulated it, in the 2006 elections. And so now there's a clamor, offstage right, to take a harder line. Colorado's own James Dobson says Republicans have betrayed 'values voters,' and those voters 'are not going to carry the water for the Republican Party if it ignores their deeply held convictions and beliefs.' The message is virtually the same. Beware bipartisanship! Moderation is abomination! But if anything should be clear from the elections just passed, it's the opposite of this argument. Democrats didn't win because they swerved left; they won with candidates who offered non-threatening centrist positions."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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