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Originally posted by Gattigap I've been critical of Rove's strategy of campaigning to and governing for the base (instead of the center) since GWB did it so plainly 2004, largely because I (among others) worried that it inevitably created a more corrosive, nastier political environment than was necessary. I hadn't figured, though, that Rove's master plan for a Generational Majority would tumble into infighting over succession in just a couple of years. Go figure.
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"The base" is a misnomer, as applied to R's. We're a loose coalition of incredibly disparate, even contradictory, groups, who have realized that it's only by subsuming some (most?) desires can we, at least, pull power to our general side of the dance floor. It's better to bicker from strength than to scream from impotence - a realization that I fear the D's will arrive at someday. On the day that Kos quietly avoids comment on a Lieberman proposal, I will sigh and take a back seat once again.
