A reader writes:
A while ago I sent you a tidbit on one of my students here in Mississippi – a young, up-and-coming Republican staffer/campaign worker deeply embedded in GOP state politics here. He’s graduated, been offered work on a few Congressional campaigns, and found time to send me this interesting piece of information:
"I’ll share a funny story with you that may shed some light on who our next president may be. I was eating breakfast with my wife’s 77 year old die hard, republican grandmother the other morning. We were watching the news and Obama was the focus of the story. She looked at me and said, ‘You know, I think he just may be all right.’"
This may be the tip of an ‘Obama Republican’ iceberg. The problem is that establishment Democrats have been so traumatized by what occurred in the 1980s and 1990s that they simply don’t recognized this opportunity for what it is – a Reagan-style realignment that could potentially shape politics and political discourse for the next generation. They’re like shell-shocked soldiers who haven’t recognized the enemy has stopped shooting and is retreating from the battlefield.
But the Clintons have a plan for their own dynasty! You can’t let the interests of the Democratic party and the country come in their way.
The Dish 