Reply #9: 16 yrs in the making? Yes....

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but I have been bitching this bitch to politicians for at least 10 yrs. Clinton was a good president in many respects, but on balance he may have done us more harm than good by reinforcing the idea among party leaders that being republican lite was the way to go. Unfortunately they have morphed to dropping the "lite" and now seem bent to just being repukes.

That's the problem when you base "success" on recalibration and polls. Pretty soon your convictions and values get lost in favor of the recalibration.