Reply #24: Easy to prove it! [View All]

1993-2001 - DLCer "corporatist" Dem president who supported NAFTA, welfare reform, and several other boogeymen of the extreme left.

Result: Frictional unemployment, reduction in poverty, federal surpluses brought about by modest tax raises on the very wealthy, lowest interest rates in decades, rising respect for the US internationally.


2001-2007+ - Not enough support for Dem candidate who was at best a middling compromise between various factions of teh party.

Result: Rising unemployment and poverty, huge federal deficits, interest rates going up, US fast becoming a pariah. Oh yeah add in an increaingly reactionary theocratic SCOTUS who acted early to attack Roe, loss of Constitutional rights with a history of nigh on 8 centuries, tens of thousands of dead and wounded Americans and hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded Iraqis. Mobbilization of countless new anti-US jihadists, massive expansion of execuitve powers until the difference between a king and a president is tough to see.

Call it some infantile term like GOP-Lite if you like, but as seen above - and Bill Clinton remember supported all the above that existed in his term - you still can't say there sin't a huge difference, and a very valuable and beneficial difference, between GOP and GOP Lite then can you?

Ask youself - which administration did you prefer. Given the choice between moving closer to the former or remaining in the latter - and believe me those will be your ONLY choices - why do you even have to think about it?