New and Old Ideas

Richard Reeves: "Democrats [have] deteriorated into a party of tactics rather than strategy, much less ideas."

This from a liberal who believes they should be "rather than hammering at the incompetence, stupidity and deviousness of a White House waging war and torturing prisoners around the world while American cities sink into the sea." This is what he considers "ideas"? The ideas of the right are winning because they make sense, especially in light of the founding principles of this nation, whereas the Democrats can't let go of the ideas of the 1930s. Most of the right's "new ideas" were new in the eighteenth century. They have been recently rediscovered after being nearly annihilated by FDR. The problem is that those old new ideas haven't succeeded nearly as much as they need to if the country is to be salvaged, which is why so many conservatives are upset with George Bush. Entitlement programs will eventually swallow up our prosperity but no politician alive will make that point. Maybe the next generation will figure it out when they get handed the bill.