OK then. A Message to Hillary Supporters...

[BootinUp]

324. Its so easy to take a political policy or candidate from many years prior

and ignore the context in such a way as to completely distort the reality. The test for any political strategy is whether it can actually build a winning coalition and this depends on various factors like whats going on in the world, what policies are believed to be effective and not effective by the public, as well as the candidates strategy, and more stuff. Go back and read FDR's 1932 nomination speech and in the context of the great depression it was rather mild. His first term was notable for cutting taxes, size of government, pumping money into the banks. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75174

Kennedy was also known for advocating cutting taxes and being fiscally conservative for a Democrat.

LBJ was assured the nomination and campaigned as a moderate.

Note: It really gets tiring reading the same stuff over and over where, at least in my view, there is not much reality when discussing political strategy. I chose language that properly expressed my feelings on that.