Originally Posted by POed-poster

There are a lot of very intelligent people in the Democratic party, many of whom have very liberal points of view. The recent election showed that middle America does not share far left views. If anything, the Democrat should have learned that they need to move a little more to the center in order to have any kind of chance in 2008. To her credit, Hillary Clinton has at least begun to make overtures to the middle and right. Unfortunately, she can't win. The reason I suggested Gore is that he is a moderate from a red state. He doesn't scare conservatives the way that Kerry and Hillary do.

The sad reality here is that while the Democrats complain about how the Republican party has been taken over by right wing nuts, it has become all too clear that the Democratic party has been taken over by left wing nuts. As 2004 showed, right wing nuts usually beat left wing nuts in elections.