“I don’t belong to an organized party – I’m a Democrat.” Will Rogers

Before Johnson and civil rights legislation, both parties were internally split.

IMHO, conservative “think tanks” and people like Limbaugh have worked to make radical ideas like “government can’t do anything right”, “government is the problem”, and low taxes are the answer to every economic situation, etc., main stream.

“There has been a lot of commentary about the splitting of the Republican Party but I think the Democrats are going to face the same issue…liberals put Democrats into office and Democrats all of a sudden don’t need their liberal base any more.”