Reply #187: Eggsactly. Once upon a time, long long ago,

[Seabiscuit]

"bipartisanship" had some meaning that had something to do with reality, perhaps as recently as the Truman or Eisenhower administrations. It had something to do with hammering out realistic compromises between polar extremes.

But at least ever since Ronny Rayguns took office, the RNC and the Republicans in office have utterly refused to compromise about anything in their cultural war against the Constitution and the American people, and their xenophobic imperial war against the rest of the world: it's "my way or the highway" for them - as in "If you Dems don't bend over, lay down, roll over, submit, obey, heel, cave in and utterly sell out, we'll run you over leaving tire tracks on your stinking, rotting corpse."

I don't think DK is a "sell-out", but rather a bit of a space-cadet. I understand in a mystical/spiritual way that I think he intended what he was trying to say about the American eagle's wings, balance, and appealing to everyone, but it is so utterly unrealistic in today's political world that you'd think someone with his experience in Washington would automatically know better. His comments on that audiotape demonstrate a thoroughgoing naievete and lack of sound judgment that may cause his candidacy this year to go down in history as the laughing stock of all time.