Reply #119: The Republican agenda is window dressing: the real agenda is POWER

[Oak2004]

And, yes, trying to ape Republican positions in order to gain power is just like buying a squirtgun that looks like a Glock and thinking it makes you a bank robber.

No Democrat will ever win anything by aping a Republican. If a Republican candidate faced a Democratic candidate that was as far to the right or farther to the right than himself, the Republicans would just use relentless, even untrue, personal attacks and funny election counting to defeat the Dem. They're all about power, all about winning, and not at all about some kind of right wing ideal (at least the current bunch of extremists: the party wasn't always this way of course).