Clinton understood that for a progressive to be successful in a conservative country he had to convey the attitude that he respected the deeply held values of voters. He supported the death penalty, welfare reform and took a tough national security stance. He could discern the difference between a Pentecostal and a pretzel. Clinton realized that conservative success was dependent on the excesses of liberalism. Attitudinally, he trumped the right. And when he deviated from those attitudes, his Presidency suffered. (Marshall Whitman, Bull Moose)
The party of Pelosi and Kennedy wish it was 1929. They wish the American populace was in the grip of major economic disaster so that a newer New Deal could emerge and be implemented by a future President John Edwards. Bill Clinton was an absolute genius and he knew how to govern succesfully. Free trade, opportunity, responsibility were the way of the 1990's. The country actually took on the issue of a major entitlement and got results. Those were the days.
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