Civil Wars in the Republican and Democrat Parties

[Rudey]

I think both parties will be doing some cleaning up at this point.

The Democrats will do 3 things.
1) Blame Kerry
2) They will stop blaming Kerry and then blame voters...calling them stupid, etc.
3) They will start blaming themselves.

Stage 3 is where it gets interesting. DC is considered more liberal usually than the base of the party but now things are inverted.

The base wants to move towards adopting left-wing policies and not anything centrist (centrist includes Clinton, Lieberman, and Bayh).

The Republicans have several things to reconsider now. I think now that the election is done, they are more free to attack certain policies.

1) Attack the high spending. We all know that we're the party of fiscal conservatives and that there was a war and 9/11, but it is not acceptable to swing away from our policy. A deficit is acceptable, a crushed economy where every country in the world owns more of our country than the people inside the country is bad.

2) The war. No matter how justified this war is to some, it is still upsetting. It is a war and not a birthday party will balloons. In addition, it is an expensive war. We need to win ASAP and hand over control.

3) There are other smaller policies that may be addressed but not really. The whole gay marriage issue was never important in the beginning to either party and sadly became solely an election issue.

There you have it folks.

-Rudey