How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses? [View all]

[MohRokTah]

How many DUers are old enough to remember the terrible defeat by Nixon in '68? This was the only time I recall a third party taking electoral votes.

Who is old enough to NEVER forget the horrible defeat of McGovern by Nixon in '72? That was a landslide that made me afraid to ever admit I was a Democrat in my local school.

Who remembers the beautiful win by the moderate peanut farmer in '76? Or his crushing defeat at the hands of a B-movie actor in '80 because of a challenge from the left in the primaries?

Who remembers what is possibly the worst landslide suffered by post-war Democrats in '84?

Or the horrible landslide against Dukakis in '88?

Then we won with Clinton, who took a different tack.

We nearly won with Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 taking the same tack.

Then Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012.

Are you starting to see the pattern and what many of us who are smart enough to remember electoral history see?

All of our horrible losses since World War II came from our most liberal candidates or abandonment by the left wing of the party, while all of our wins came from our most centrist candidates.

Politics is the art of the possible, and accepting somebody who is not the most liberal potential candidate at the presidential level can lead to the possible becoming what was impossible when they started their terms.

I give you marriage equality as an example of the impossible becoming possible.