Republican civil war: Fox News dumps Karl Rove & Dick Morris

[TaraJo]

You dems are celebrating way too early....

The scoreboard I see with the last four elections is 3-1, and the only win on your side is because Obama demoralized his own base by being such a wimp (a mistake he seems to be correcting).

And it's not going to get better. Republicans have run so far to the right that their only bases are religious nuts, white supremists and grumpy old men, all of which are dying off.

True, but if you look at it historically, it's not a total win for Dems.

Bill Clinton won high approval ratings and was able to accomplish a lot by sticking to a largely left of center agenda, but adopted certain, Republican policy ideas as well. Remember, he's the president who passed welfare reform. The idea was that the Republicans, to differentiate themselves from Clinton, would have to establish themselves even further to the right, into the crazy, extremist right. Obama continued that with a largely left agenda (while, admittedly, he was a bit spineless with) but foreign policy that is startingly similar to what Bush had.

The problem is it's working. The Republicans have become the crazy party, but the dems are still solidly right of center on a global/historical scale. We don't really have a left wing of politics anymor; we have a crazy right and a moderate right.