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...would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic Texas presidential campaign - including Hillary Rodham and her future husband Bill Clinton. But on the night of Feb. 19, the place...
...news for Hillary is that the middle-class working people who were the heart of the party in the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson have gone to the Republicans," says Paul Begala, a Texas Democrat who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992. "We still have the latte drinkers, but the cuppa-joe drinkers are mostly gone, and the Democrats have to find a way to bring them back...
...history suggests a deal later is possible, if not likely, whatever the insiders may think now. More often than not, winners in both parties reach out to losers-or at least contemplate an overture-when the time comes to put a broken party back together. John Kennedy tapped Lyndon Johnson in 1960, though the two men were like oil and water. Ronald Reagan named George H.W. Bush in 1980, though they never became very close. Walter Mondale gave a man he resented, Gary Hart, a good look in 1984, before choosing Geraldine Ferraro. And John Kerry recruited his former rival...
...easy sell, in part because the political pendulum was swinging rightward from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, but also because the Democrats seemed to have lost confidence in their own ideas. They had lapsed into an intellectually sloppy identity politics, subdividing themselves by race, gender and sexual preference. They fixed on narrow-gauge programs rather than broad themes. All too often they sounded like Ginsu-knife salesmen on late-night cable television: "And if you buy our children's health-care plan, we'll throw in - absolutely free! - a $4,000 college-tuition tax credit. Plus, this special onetime offer...
...Hillary Clinton said--in a comment highly uncontroversial from a historical perspective but highly inadvisable from a political one--that King's dreams couldn't have become law without the executive and legislative leadership of Lyndon Johnson. She was trying to make a point that forms the central claim of her candidacy: that Obama lacks the experience to effect change in Washington. Stung, Obama surrogates seized the irresistible opportunity to say Clinton was belittling King. Then the Clinton camp, not atypically, overreacted. The New York Senator complained that when Obama defended the value of hopeful rhetoric by referencing King...