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Junior Chimp
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« on: November 03, 2009, 11:18:46 PM »

If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation.   

What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere.
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Junior Chimp
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Posts: 5,159
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E: 6.19, S: -9.91

« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 11:25:53 PM »

If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation.   

What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere.

You may even get me.

But you have to work for it, too. Notice that when Nixon began his Southern Strategy in earnest after Wallace was shot and out of the picture, he intentionally shunned the most hardcore segregationists, asking them to tone down (but never totally drop) their segregation and moderate their rhetoric. At the same time, any Republican entryism into the Democratic ranks would have to do the same in reverse: become more outspoken on social liberal issues. 
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