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Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 07:08 PM by Ozymanithrax
Rockefeller Republican refers to a faction of the United States Republican Party that held moderate to liberal views similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller. They believed a woman has a right to chose … which banker she gives her money to. Heaven help her if she thinks that once she’s given them her money that it is hers in any substantial way. They believed in equality of race … being blind to all colors but green. They exist primarily today as Logcabin conservatives. They were dominated by the idea that wealth was the most important aspect of our society, and Bankers were their natural allies.
They predominated in the Northeast, but while this group survived in the wilds of Wall Street, they made inroads in the West and could be found in numbers almost anywhere but the South where Social Conservatives dominate to this day.
Social Conservatives, however, now dominate the Republican party and are in conflict with Fringe Conservatives, inheritors of the John Birch Society, for the nasty little fragment they call its soul.
Beginning with Clinton, the Democratic party has come to be dominated by what I call Rockefeller Democrats. Some call the DLC and others Conservadems. Bill Clinton, that Social Liberal Fiscal conservative was their first great success. A man of relatively modest means before entering the White House, he has gained great wealth and now is quite at home in the house of the Wealthy.
President Obama, a man himself of some wealth, is their second great success. His fiscal policies show where his true loyalties lie. He champions Conservative solutions to our greatest problems. Obamcare is nothing more than Romneycare and the mandate is a creation of the heritage foundation. His solutions to health care is driven by the market place not human need. His solution to the economic crash was to circle the Federal Wagons around the banks. There has been no substantive attempt to seek out the power brokers and the money men who came close to destroying the world economy. In fact, he yook Bush’s economic policies and made them his own, including extending the disastrous Bush Tax cuts. Finally, Obama’s great champions is not FDR, Truman, Kennedy or Johnson, but Reagan.
It is clear that Rockefeller Democrats have taken control of the reins of power in the Democratic party. Now that we face a very critical election, we are forced to decide if we want a rabid social conservative Republican beholden only to the Teaparty and rightwing church or a centrist fiscal conservative beholden to the banks calling himself a Democrat. If we reject the fiscal conservative Rockefeller Democrat, there are real consequences. We remember Bush, and the current crop of Social Conservatives are revolutionaries no where near as gentle as Bush who want to transform the country, to a remake a golden age that never existed except in their own rabid fantasies.
As liberals, we are faced with what several hosts on MSNBC have said as having nowhere else to go, because the Obama Administration sees their road back to the White House in appealing to moderate centrist independents. There is no hint that a real liberal or real progressive will take up the challenge of primarying a sitting Democratic President, as it is likely to be political suicide. What good they do where they are will be lost. So far, no liberal or Conservative who lost his job in the House or Senate has come forward to primary and face the same political suicide.
Those of use with nowhere else to go sit out here on the left and consider our options, support another conservative Rockefeller Democrat, or go rogue and try to build something new. I haven’t made up my mind yet, but my options open and I’m looking for liberal.
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