Democratic Party is dead.

If you can't beat Bush in 2004 after all the obvious lies, when do you ever win the Presidency again?

The problem partly originated in 1996 under Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress....Telecomunications Act of 1996 was the bullet put into the revolver to shoot themselves in the head with.

It created the rise of "conservative" (aka fascist) talk radio. This in effect created the propaganda network needed to brainwash Joe Sixpack into voting against his own best interest. The "Fairness Doctrine" helped in making sure there was balance to the issues brought before the American people.

What does the Democratic Party stand for? Republican-lite???

The Democratic Party allowed NAFTA to come to fruition without safeguards for the working-class. The economic boom created during the Clinton Presidency was a result of the Technology balloon that burst late in 1999-2000.

You can't win elections by trying to be republicans.