Pundit democrat: "Thanks, GOP Candidates, For Move to Far Right!" AS IF There's a Single Thing About the democrat party That's "Moderate" or Centrist!

The above quote comes from the headline to a Politico.com column this week written by some democrat party person named Jennifer Granholm (never heard of her). It's in reference to the deranged right-winger gop-er presidential field and how they've tried to move way to the right to appear to be the most "true conservative" candidate to the republic partisan party's far right-winger base.

That criticism in itself is not only fair, but it's also true. But that's not what caught my attention. Instead, I'm amused by the highly smug, arrogant tone and theme of the article, which very much presupposes that there's absolutely nothing extremist or radical about the sad modern incarnation of the American democrat party!

Nothing new to me, however. People loyal to the democrat party seem to have this weird delusion that they are somehow in the mainstream of the country. It leads them, for example, to maintain until they're blue in the face that Obama (perhaps the most left-wing so-called president in American history) is some sort of "moderate." And the thing is -- I think many of them actually believe that line of bullshit.

So let's set the record straight with a little American political culture 101: The democrat party is controlled and bankrolled by its base -- the roughly 20% of the American population comprised of self-described "liberals" and "progressives." (I personally coined the phrase and call them "leftist 20 percenters" because they don't deserve the respect of being called the names they've chosen for themselves).

That's the American far-left. It is virtually one and the same with the democrat party. And there's nothing centrist, "moderate" or mainstream about it. If you're a part of the leftist 20 percenters, then you're decently represented by the democrat party. But unfortunately, that leaves about 80% of the rest of the American population.

So let's not cast so many stones, democrat party, about how far right-wing, out-of-touch and extremist the gop'ers are. That not only goes without saying. But it also in no way eviscerates the cold hard fact that you are little different from them. Two peas in the same extremist pod, as I like to say.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73337.html