Reply #6: Things were not bad for the GOP in the early 90s.

[UdoKier]

Clinton got only 43% of the vote against an eleitist country club republican and a semi-right-wing nut from Texas. They already had the foundations of their media empire in place (minus Fox) and they had a New "Democrat" president who would keep taxes low on the rich and corporations and eventually would allow even more media consolidation for them. Clinton's center-right policies allowed them to define the center even further to the right. Things were great for the GOP in the early 90s, culminating in Newt seeping the house in '94.

Things have been going south for the democratic party every since Carter's colossal failure to lead, IMO, and Clinton did almost nothing reverse that (although he deserves credit for doing what no republican has done, running the country as a REAL conservative, and getting the debt under control.)

The democratic party will be worthless until it goes back to being a PROGRESSIVE party, one that fights for PROGRESS, real headway, not just trying to slow down the republican destruction of this country.