Reply #29: They can't do it in an election year, though

[jmowreader]

If they try the Nixonian Shuffle ten months before the election, we could win with Dukakis. (Any Dukakis will do.)

Last year, they could have run him off before the war started and been fine--choose someone innocuous-looking, maybe John McCain. They'd have to flush the PNAC maniacs out of their positions. McCain would be perfect for them. He's a decent Republican, he's a war hero and he's got some grip on fiscal reality. Back him up with a winger as VP to appease the wingnut base. I'm thinking Frist, who is fairly low on the wingnut hierarchy--bad, but anyone here can name ten worse ones without thinking.

Let these two make some changes, ones that benefit the majority of Americans, and the Democratic Party would be in for a serious fight.

If they start shuffling these nutcases around now, the people will see it as a method to remove Bush before he destroys the party; that will destroy the party.