Let's talk Third Way. Some links about its founding and the founders.

[Utopian Leftist]

203. What works for CONS (I.E. whatever they can get away with)

does not always work for those of us on the sane side of the aisle.

It is not unlike what the conservatives accomplished in the Republican Party during the 1960s and 1970s.

That's because they were wrong to begin with. On every issue. So CONS, having nothing to fear but the truth, pulled a CON on themselves and their own party, and shifted ever more belligerently to the right. The Clintons apparently believed they could do the same thing to the Democratic Party: pull a con-job, presenting themselves as liberals when in fact they are far from it.

I think we're all about to find out just how wrong they were to underestimate the passion those of us who are truly on the left, feel for our beliefs. Americans want their left, left and their right, right. Watering down of either position is not the same thing as compromise. Compromise only works to an extent: when one reaches the extent of compromising his/her principles, it's over. Compromised principles lead to watered-down ideas that are never effective. It's become blatantly obvious this week that Tony Blair had no principles, to begin with. He helped Shrub and Powell plan the Iraq War a year before it was sold to Murkastan.

Can the same be said for either Clinton? Only time will tell. But if they truly believe the way forward is to water down RepubliCON economic proposals, then why do they not stand up and admit this truth? Why pretend to be liberals, besides a raw desire to win elections? We must end this silliness now. Politics is not a sport. It's nobody's TURN to be President! There are lives at stake, potentially millions here in this once-in-a-lifetime election.