http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/21/1195906/-GOP-civil-war-reminiscent-of-our-own-except-for-the-winning-later-part
We might be laughing at the the Republican National Committee's autopsy, but it has sparked outright hostility on the Right. On one side are the establishment Republicans, desperate for a party that can compete and win elections, on the other side are the Teabaggers, convinced that only further purity will lead to glory.I've been transfixed by this battle, watching it play out, trying to gauge whether it's a temporary flare-up or whether it presages a deeper split in the conservative movement. (The jury is still out.) But it hasreminded me of something else—the battles that first sparked the Netroots into existence.Our current Democratic Party has got plenty of problems, but you only need to see things like this to realize how far we've come:You’ve often heard Republicans talk about organizing campaigns around the vaunted “guns, God, and gays” formulation long beloved by GOP strategists. Now progressives and Democrats are increasingly organizing around a cultural and economic issue triumvirate of their own: Guns, gays, and the minimum wage.
i believe they were attempting another failure of a plan to "take back their country" they were talkig loud and saying nothing. they tried to steal Pres.'s plans like we wouldn't recognize it, short and sweet their platform is fraught with termites and no matter what they will lose from one side or the other, maybe with their base taking up imigration them.
Ten years ago, when the Netroots was just a wee baby, establishment Democrats convinced themselves that survival depended on holding the line against gay rights (Howard Dean was unelectable because of civil unions!), against gun control and against anything smacking of a tax increase. An entire cottage industry arose around trying to get Democrats to better appeal to religious voters. And it didn't matter how unnecessary a war was, it was verboten to oppose one.There was a clear battle between those DLC-corporatist-style Democrats and the reformer Netroots, leading to the 2005 election of Howard Dean to run our party, and culminating with the 2006 ouster of Joe Lieberman from the Democratic Party. Following that seminal moment, the intra-party hostilities ratcheted down—the party adopted our anti-war stance, and over time has moved left on pretty much every issue of concern except for civil liberties and drones. So much so, in fact, that the DCCC has explicitly said that it will campaign in 2014 on the issues of minimum wage and gun control.
bold move for those beholden to NRA and other outside interest, funny to say outside interest when they apparently are all up in the bowels of gov't Dems got it better now the people are behind them truth will will out republicans caught in a whirlpool, that's tough. they are finding no safe harbor, the perfect storm, for us.
