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Monday, March 12, 2007

Recalibration and Realignment?

I’ve been noodling over a political quandary for a while now.  I left the Democratic Party because, in my opinion, it has drifted very far into dangerous leftist territory.  Conventional wisdom in the MSM, on the other hand, has spun the story in precisely the opposite direction.  The conventional story seems to be that the recent injection of pro-life, anti-gun-control advocates has moved the Party to the center.  Why has my perception been so different?

I found the answer in last week’s Weekly Standard, in an article about Rudy Giuliani and social conservatives.  So here’s a conjecture that helps me make sense of many seeming anomalies:

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Posted by Bruce Abramson from on 03/12 at 12:50 AM in American Government, Politics, and Domestic Policies,  Foreign Affairs and the World beyond Our Borders
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