roachboy

in reality, clinton was a moderate.
he came out of the democratic leadership conference.
his central political strategy was "triangulation" and its architect was dick morris. triangulation consisted of the moderate clinton administration co-opting moderate republican issues.
the administration pursued this strategy relentlessly, and it explains in alot of ways what started the populist right heading into the outer reaches of the right to stake out an identity for itself.

this is all a matter of record.
what's stunning is that so many folk who position themselves amongst the teabaggers can't detach themselves from the manufactured pseudo-history of the 1990s enough to remember what the fuck actually happened.

i mean, clinton was a monetarist---morethan any republican president. his was the first administration since the collective delirium of "supply-side" economics hit to actually implement a fiscal regime consistent with it--you know, balanced budgets and all that stuff which the bush administration vaporized almost immediately. republicans before and after have all been straight up keynesians---they just favored republican friendly sectors to pump state money into like the military.

i think ratbastid's post above states what i would expect to be the obvious to anyone who looks.

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