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In reply to the discussion: So let me get this straight, [View all]merrily
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By that I mean the kind of posts that, like your Reply 55 try to pretend that traditional Democrats and liberal Democrats are somehow aligned or associated with Republicans. There is less than no truth to that.
If any group of Democrats is somehow aligned with Republicans, that group would be the New Democrats, both those in office and their unconditional supporters, not traditional Democrats or liberal Democrats.
Our current New Democrat President did say that, in the 1980's (when Raygun was head of the Republican Party), he (Obama) would have been considered a moderate Republican.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/obama-considered-moderate-republican-1980s/story?id=17973080
Like Hillary, I take Obama at his word.
Moreover, when Obama and Hillary were running against each other in 2008, each of them put Ronald Reagan on his/her list of ten best American Presidents ever. That's very interesting, since no sane, respectable historian ever knocks Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR and Truman off that list. So, only five slots are open--and, for Hillary, only four. Yet New Democrats Obama and Hillary both used one of the few remaining slots to exalt Reagan.