Louis Proyect wrote: > ... But > remember that Dubya ran as a centrist more or less and only lurched to the > right after 9/11.
I don't remember it that way, though he did lurch _even further_ right after 9/11. I remember that from the outset, the Bush League was so arrogant and pushy that it drove Vt. senator Jeffords out of the GOP caucus. Since that broke the GOP's marginal majority status, they had to cool it a bit. > I think that the ruling class has always preferred a more centrist candidate > like Obama or George Bush '41. They have looked at the damage to their > long-term interests by the last 8 years of Bush and are looking to move > things back to the center. That's what the nomination of Leon Panetta means > to me. This guy is not going to reform the CIA (which really means to > abolish it) but make sure that it is running professionally. Why the > liberals at Air America, MSNBC, et al are so excited by this is of course > something of a mystery. I think you're right, but that's true only for the organized and richest parts of the ruling class (represented perhaps by Soros). The more "petty bourgeois" section is more extreme. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
