McGovern Redux for the DNC? Will The GOP Be Ready To Capitalize?

[Annie]

Interesting times indeed. I for one have been dismayed at what is going on with the GOP at the state and national level, yet seems we can't come close to what is occuring within the democratic party:

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-10_30_05_JL.html

October 30, 2005
The New McGovernites Will Fail to Win Again
By John Leo

The editor of The New Republic suggested the other day that "the new liberal political culture emerging on the Internet" looks a lot like the McGovernite revolution that descended on the Democratic Party in 1972. In a lecture at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Peter Beinart said the mostly young Internet activists are clearly taking over the party.

If so, this would be the first ray of sunshine for conservatives and Republicans in almost a year. The McGovern movement severely damaged the party, pushing it toward four presidential defeats in five tries, until Bill Clinton won by dragging the party back to the center in 1992. If the Internet people had prevailed in 2004, Howard Dean would have won the nomination and then been buried in an enormous landslide, just like George McGovern...