"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country--as you value your own sacred honor--as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood." --George Washington, 1783
"Four years later, Michael Dukakis declared that 'this election is not about ideology, it is about competence.' In the next cycle, Bill Clinton declared himself 'a different kind of Democrat' and jettisoned some of his party's positions about crime and welfare. Al Gore began his political life as a centrist, much in the model of Clinton."
Jeff Greenfield at Politico calls Walter Mondale "The Last Old-School Democrat."
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