Yeahman
11-06-2006, 08:41 PM
Democrats should stick to the centre (http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/11/back_to_the_centre.html)
More than 30 years ago, the Manhattan-based movie critic Pauline Kael is said to have expressed amazement that the then-president had won re-election. "No-one I know voted for Nixon!" she reportedly exclaimed.
The insular tendency among the liberal-left in the US - and the inclination to see their nation's political character as they would like it to be, rather than as it really is - remains alive and worryingly strong.
The left's delusions bedevil the Democratic party. Tomorrow's results are likely to show, once again, that imaginative centrism is an infinitely better option.
Apparently if the Democrats take the Senate tomorrow, it will likely be due entirely to the efforts of conservative Democratic candidates. The big one is the ouster of Rick Santorum by a Democrat who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.
More than 30 years ago, the Manhattan-based movie critic Pauline Kael is said to have expressed amazement that the then-president had won re-election. "No-one I know voted for Nixon!" she reportedly exclaimed.
The insular tendency among the liberal-left in the US - and the inclination to see their nation's political character as they would like it to be, rather than as it really is - remains alive and worryingly strong.
The left's delusions bedevil the Democratic party. Tomorrow's results are likely to show, once again, that imaginative centrism is an infinitely better option.
Apparently if the Democrats take the Senate tomorrow, it will likely be due entirely to the efforts of conservative Democratic candidates. The big one is the ouster of Rick Santorum by a Democrat who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.