On Jun 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, jon louis mann wrote:
> democrats, on the other hand are largely craven cowards when it comes > to holding anyone accountable. it took them all this time to get > libby, while letting cheney off the hook. they still haven't managed > to stop the war, let alone fire gonzales. makes me wonder if maybe it > is true there is not that much difference between the two parties. There is less difference than some members of both parties would like, that's for sure. I suspect that a goodly number of socially-conservative Republicans wish that there were more anti-<social_ill_of_your_choice> candidates. I think that they would like to see their party take a stronger role in shaping the moral character of our country by eliminating behaviors that they see as immoral. Similarly, I suspect that a number of liberal Democrats wish that their candidates had been more clearly against the war from day one or did more to bring the promises of America to more Americans. I think that they would like to see their party take a stronger role in shaping the moral character of our country by doing to others as we would have others do to -- and for -- us. But by moving towards either of those "more complete" representations of their parties' values, they inevitably alienate voters at the other end of the spectrum, without picking up a corresponding number of new voters on their own end... And so we are stuck with middle-of-the-road politicians and parties, even as the arguments about politics seem to be getting more extreme. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
