Salon: When a party flirts with suicide

[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. Getting someone like the opponent to Goldwater would be a good thing?

True, LBJ did some good things with respect to civil rights. But let's give JFK credit for his civil rights policies which ultimately were adopted by LBJ et al.

The problem with the Goldwater-LBJ comparison is that Goldwater was the real war candidate while LBJ, who was already engaging in military build up for the upcoming and planned Viet Nam war, expressly ran on a platform that he would not send American troops to fight on Asian soil.

We know how that turned out.

The problem with Gingrich running is that, even when he loses, it frees up Obama to any of the nutty things that Gingrich and the other Republicans want to the detriment of the country as a whole.

Please, name a policy that Obama adopted to the benefit of the country as a whole that the 1% did not want.

He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act? That was originated in Congress by someone other than himself. His omission to oppose it did not mean that he was a moving force behind it.

Mandatory purchase of health insurance? That idea originated with Sen. Grassley, a REPUBLICAN Senator from Iowa.

He withdrew all troops from Iraq? All? Or all the uniformed troops?

What about recent activities, such as the approval (even if claimed to be reluctant approval) of Presidentally-approved assignations of Americans, indefinite detention with no recourse, silence in the face of the police brutalization of peaceful protestors exercising their First Amendment rights, etc. (Is it time for someone to pull out the list again?)

So he's not Gingrich? Please consider the lesson learned from the election of LBJ.