Reply #40: I realize Jesse himself was partly to blame.

[Ken Burch]

But it's hard to believe he would have just given up like that if the Beltway hadn't made it clear in '88 that his "place at the table" would be bussing the dishes and changing the tablecloth.

In any event, without the Rainbow, the 90's "Democratic" administration ended up being eight years of wasted time. I don't think anybody would seriously argue now that we should ever have a Dem president who governs that far to the hard right again.