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["McDonough, Terrence" <terrence.mcdonough@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Here's what is most amazing about this.  While virtually all of the Bush
agenda over the last eight years ended up being deeply unpopular and
profoundly discredited, it was his foreign policy and intelligence
programs (torture, rendition, illegal surveillance, war) which caused
the most intense opposition, at least among Democratic voters.  That is
a large part of why Democrats just won their second straight national
election promising to oppose Bush's policies and to implement "change."
  It was the policies implemented and overseen by Bush's Pentagon, CIA
and "homeland security" apparatus that caused the most disgrace.
"Continuity" in those areas would be nothing less than a patent betrayal
of everything Democrats, over the last two years, told the citizenry
they intended to do.<

I suspect Reyes' opinion has nothing to do with a conviction about the need for these "techniques."  Having hoovered up much of the left and the center, the Party now reaches out to the center-right knowing there is nowhere else for the center and the left to go.  This impulse is as natural to politicians as breathing.  It is also why any electorally successful third party movement will rapidly move to the center and then reach out to the right.  Success turns activists into career politicians and attracts politicians as members.  Vote for the lesser of the evils.  This is good tactics as voting costs little effort but don't work for politicians or found new parties for them to make a nest in.

Terry
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