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Conservatives Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Demise
The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote yesterday: ...it might be dangerous for the Republican Party to elevate the stakes for this election to a death match between competing ideologies. If Barack Obama's victory is as decisive as it is shaping up to be, the Democrats can justifiably claim that ...
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Bill Scher: Conservatives Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Demise
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... a public-private hybrid approach to guarantee health care coverage for all. These are new ideas. Conservatives are free to debate them on the merits with some new ideas of their own. Instead, they continue to be addicted to misinformation, and allergic to new ideas that recognize the failure of their past policies. Until they change their ways, they'll be planting farms of failure to feed generations of conservatives. Originally posted at OurFuture.org ...

The Potential Progressive Mandate*
Open Left - Front Page — ... election on such extreme ideological grounds, the mandate that would come out of an Obama win would be way more progressive than Obama's own policy platform. It would be as progressive on many issues as the public already is (despite whether people call themselves "liberal" or "conservative"). This is the point of a new Institute for America's Future Op-Ad in today's New York Times - the point I and Bill Scher made in a series of posts last week (here,  here, here and here) about how McCain is making the election a referendum on Reagan ...

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