Yeah, Russia ground the German war machine to dust.  If acknowledging that makes you a Stalinist, the world is filled with them.  I notice you didn't cut and paste the part of that post where I denounced Stalin.  Nice intellectual honesty, Ken.  Or did you somehow not read the sentence before the one you posted?  You are such a hack.

Run the gun stuff.  The gun nuts weren't voting Dem anyway and most people either don't care or don't want less gun control.  And haven't you repeatedly acknowledged women is a major and vital swing block for McCain?  I wonder if making this a major issue will turn more NRA voters to McCain or more housewives to Obama?  Think it through.

Also, I think it should be noted this is the crowning achievement of the entire conservative revolution.  From 1968 to now, all those election wins and controlling the conversation and this is pretty much the only potentially lasting change the right wing revolution managed to accomplish.  Yeah, they stole a lot of money and cut a lot of rich folks taxes but those are temporary year to year things.  How many real changes have they put in place?

Compare the Dems of the FDR-LBJ period and the long term structual changes they accomplished to the Nixon-Bush Republicans.

A recap:

Abortion- Still legal

Gays- still free, marriage still a states rights issues just like when you started

Seperation of church and state- still upheld

Habeas Corpus-temporarily ignored but now reaffirmed

Welfare- reformed (by a Dem) but essentially still intact 

Segregation- GOP failed to keep it alive

Inheritance tax- temporarily lowered but will be right back in a few years

Social Security- not privatized

Immigration- still coming strong

Deregulation- for now, easiest thing in the world to put it back

Progressive taxation- lessened it but not in any permanent way 

Anything else?

See the difference between this crowd and the revolution of FDR?

But on the postive side of the ledger, the gun industry sales will go up and more people will get shot.  That will be pretty hard to undo.

by ProfRich on 06/27/2008 12:02:59 PM EST

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