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...PAUL KIRK, the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told a packed Forum at the Harvard Institute of Politics that we have already entered the post-Reagan era, he demonstrated a naivete that could prove fatal for the Democratic Party. Kirk reassured us that the "Conservative realignment" Democrats feared has not materialized and that all the party has to do to regain power is to wait for the political pendulum to swing back its way. With this kind of attitude among Democratic leaders, they are going to be waiting a long time...
...Republican effort to get Democratic southerners to switch their party affiliation was a failure, Kirk said, costing his opponents $1.5 million...
...Kirk said the party has already stopped "the hemorraging of the realignment," to the Republican party. He pointed to a Democratic victory in a special Congressional race in Texas this past summer and predicted the Democrats would regain control of the Senate in the coming election...
...must move into the future," Kirk said, "unafraid of change." Kirk said Democrats can and have taken a leadership role on a number of issues, including South Africa, the deficit, defense policy, and trade policy...
...Kirk said he has refused advice given to him at the beginning of his term that the party should become more like the Republican party...