Reply #41: Embracing their moderates [View All]

[charlie]

Like Jeffords, who jumped ship? Or Spector, whom they had sweating bullets before his primary and to this day has to occasionally re-assert his fealty to the conservative claque lest they kick him to the curb? Or Todd Whitman, who's out there squalling "it's MY party too"?

You have it bass-ackwards. Republicans don't distance themselves from their hyper-right fringe. Democrats already have a healthy contingent of moderates and fear the dread "liberal" label.