Year of the Donkey?

Pete Du Pont analyzes the strategy of the left leading up to the 2008 election. "Are the Democrats rising, or just listing to the left?" he asks. His conclusion is they are mostly "listing to the left" and if they are not careful they will have a Republican President take office in January 2009!

His most interesting paragraph regards Mrs. Clinton and her real agenda:

• "There are many more clues to the Democratic Party's revitalized '60s liberalism. Mrs. Clinton has told us that "we are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good," which means bigger government and fewer individual choices. She has also pledged to do in her administration what she tried to do in her husband's: "When I am president, we will have universal health care coverage in our country." "

With this vision and with the "cut and run" tactic all of the Democratic candidates are now promoting, if we don't elect a Republican President in 2008 we are going to have a very rough time going into the teen years of the twenty-first century!

A thought: the above quote - "we are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good," - sounds familiar to me. Could it be several world movements tried this in the twentieth century and most failed?