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Which Democrat? Barry Warsch. Who’s he? Well:

Lifelong Democrat; Former president, Broward County, Florida Young Democrats; Former member, Broward County, Florida Democratic Executive Committee; Former city commissioner, City of Cooper City, Florida. Graduate of THE University of Florida. Practicing attorney in Miami. Member of The Florida Bar. Southernmost member of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association. Broward County Young Democrats’ Trailblazer of the Year, 1994. Broward County Young Democrats’ Young Democrat of the Year, 1996. Chabad of Southwest Broward Man of the Year, 1995. Ever hopeful Dolphin Season ticket holder, 20+ years. NEVER VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN. NEVER. EVER.

What does he think?

I really like the way Palin drives the people I dislike to distraction.

Andrew Sullivan on the Palin selection:

“John McCain has demonstrated with this insane decision that he is unfit to be president of the United States. This was an act of near-criminal negligence. If he can behave this recklessly and impulsively with this decision, the idea of allowing him to become president of the United States is only a smidgen less terrifying than thinking of Palin in that position.”

This post has it all – – the Stalinistic psychological misdiagnosis of political opposition (“insane”, “recklessly”, “impulsively”), the attempted criminalization of political disagreement (“an act of near-criminal negligence”), and the paranoid hyperbole (“terrifying”).

Can you imagine how the Obamacans will freak when McCain/Palin wins, and they do a real steady, competent, level headed, moderate, non partisan job? You know, everything Obama promised until he wrapped up the nomination.

I think we’ve all had just about enough of the endless rancor – I do continue to blame the left for it, but assigning blame doesn’t get rid of the issue. Essentially, I’m willing to meet liberalism half way on a lot of issues, if they are willing to do so with the right. Some issues are intractable and we’ll just have to fight it out and see who wins, but there is room for compromise which doesn’t surrender core principles of either liberalism or conservatism.

Now, while a lot of liberals out there might find this mere partisanship on my part, the plain fact of the matter is that we are far more likely to get compromise with McCain/Palin than we are with Obama/Biden. Obama talks a good game, but in the end he’s an ultra liberal who hasn’t dared to compromise an iota on liberal ideas – we won’t get from Obama a willingness to, say, grant partial privatization in return for higher payroll taxes to fund social security for an additional decade or two; liberal ideology says “no retreat” on SS privatization, and Obama has given no indication that he’ll defy his base…McCain, on the other hand, has already defied his base at times and I can’t imagine a President McCain refusing partial privatization simply because the other side is insistent upon modest payroll tax increases.

To expand on my example for illustrative purposes, getting to any sort of privatization is key to our program, because we are convinced that once people see how superior it is, they will demand more and more of it…as for liberals, they are convinced that privatization is too risky, and in order to allay their concerns, they are getting more money into the SS system, and if their views are correct, privatization will fail and people will turn firmly back to the current SS system. This is actually a win/win for liberalism – if privatization works, they can claim partial credit for it, if it fails they can lay all the blame on the GOP…all it takes for this happy event is a willingness on the part of Democrats to concede a small point and allow partial privatization. On and on it will go with issue after issue, if we have people on both sides willing to give. McCain will, Obama won’t – or, more accurately, can’t; he can’t because he lacks the imagination and the raw courage it takes to defy ideological purists.

We have a stunning opportunity this fall to really do a good turn for our nation – by putting in to the Executive the skill, courage and flexibility – grounded in Reaganite principles – necessary to break the logjam and isolate the hardheaded people left and right (though its easier to dispense with the kook right, as its much smaller than the kook left). As long time readers will know, a primary goal of mine has been to isolate the far left and exclude them from the corridors of American power – I’ll never agree with liberalism’s basic premises, but I can work with liberals who have cut themselves loose from the kook left, as conservatism cut itself loose from the kook right about 40 years ago (with periodic purges since then as kook righties have slipped into the conservative movement). We’ll see how far this sentiment goes – though there are some indicators that it is large, and growing rapidly.