Reply #32: Or ask Ed Koch

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A liberal Democrat his whole life:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/koch.html

And there will be more. You can count on it. For example, who do you think Andrew Cuomo will ultimately endorse?

Evidence of Democrats supporting Bush is everywhere. One blog which is much discussed here on DU is Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs. Well, here's a fact: Johnson voted for Gore in 2000. Moreover, up until 9/11/2001, Johnson attacked Bush with regularity.

Take a look at these:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=291

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=506

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=565

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=939

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=1095 (on 9/12/2001)

Johnson is supporting Bush.

Oscar nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon is a life-long liberal. He's supporting Bush in '04:

http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000469.htm

Cara Remal has always been a liberal. She is likely supporting Bush because she believes that the next President must be serious about the WoT (and is supporting Democrats in congressional races, since she is liberal on domestic policy):

http://whoknew.typepad.com/whoknew/2003/10/the_savage_left.html

The list goes no and on and on. I know MANY Gore voters who will be voting for Bush the next time around (unless the Democrats nominate someone like Lieberman or, possibly, Edwards) because the WoT is a BIG deal to them. San Francisco radio talk show host Ron Owens, who is the most popular radio personality in the Bay Area is a good example of the mindset of many centrists (he is the very definition of a centrist - supported the war, liberal on domestic issues; his new book is "Voice of Reason : Why the Left and Right are Wrong"
http://www.kgoam810.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.ronn.com ). He is undecided but two things are clear. If Lieberman gets the nomination, he's voting for Lieberman and if Dean gets it, he's voting for Bush.

The Democratic party is walking off of a cliff. I don't care how many "new" voters you think you'll bring in. If a candidate loses virtually all of the other side's voters (and energizes their base as well) and ALSO loses 10-30% of traditionally Democratic voters because they support the war effort and are told that there is no room for them in the new Democratic party, he's going to lose in a landslide that will make people forget about McGovern, Dukakis and Mondale forever.