Reply #99: right

[Two Americas]

This is one of the strangest political decisions I have ever seen. The public has thoroughly rejected the right wing, the religious right has lost its power over people and Reaganomics have been repudiated. The people are through with that nonsense, why aren't we? Other than a hard core, 30% at most, who will never come around no matter how much kissing up we do to them.

There is no political need to cater to the right. It can only revive and rejuvenate them, with nothing to gain in return.

There are people who are going to vote against the Democrats until and unless the Democrats adopt the religious right platform, as you say. They can't be won over, everybody else already has - they voted against the right wing. One would think that it was the Left that had been repudiated and banished to the wilderness, rather than the right.