Zell Miller is on the stage...

[Democratic Hawk]

Please listen to David Gergen right now on Larry King.
He said that Miller's speech was full of 'venom' and 'hate'.

I agree. Those words coming from a Democrat were just awful and all of this common from a guy, who three years ago hailed that John Kerry as "one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders and a good friend".

His speech was aggressive and although loved by the Republicans, it should alienate moderates. Zell's a conservative. If you don't like the direction of your own party, you should remain loyal to it and fight to change if from within. That surely is the honourable thing to do for either Democrats unhappy with their party or Republicans who are unhappy with their's for that matter.

Both parties are big tents with room for liberals, moderates and conservatives.

Dave

[Democratic Hawk]

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Both parties are big tents with room for liberals, moderates and conservatives.

Dave

It's hard to maintain that.  This is why it is time for the parties to split up along more narrow cores, so you don't have cross-overs like this.  

If American, I would certainly be a Democrat. I'm economically "new liberal" (as opposed to "neo-liberal"), fiscally conservative and socially moderate.

If I were ever to be remotely a Republican Party sympathiser it would have to return to the centre and be the party of the likes of Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller.

Dave