Reply #80: I don't agree with your pointof departure

[swilton]

which in general finds fault with the media rather than the Obama Administration for the economic/environmental and foreign policy crises plaguing our country and stimulating dissatisfaction with Obama's base of former supporters..

Paul Jay on the eve of the 2010 elections gave six ways the Democratic Party failed to put the nails in the GOP coffin. Just to refresh your memory, here is the list of six.

1. Allowed Republicans to rebrand themselves as populists
2. Old mindset in US foreign policy
3. Not defending the public option for health care reform
4. Not Using the Auto Bailout to Build A Green Economy
5. Bailing Out Bankers and not the Banking System
6. Not investigating Bush and Cheney

If you changed the wording in number 3 to not defending the middle class for financial reform, and changed number 4 to address building a Green Economy vice a War Economy, the list would still be valid today.

The Republican Party like the Democratic Party is fragmented and the fragmented parties lend options for a third party candidate to get the majority of votes - that is what I'm banking on....There is no substantive difference between the Democratic Party and the GOP as it stands now.