Wallace Begat McGovern, McGovern Begat Carter, Carter Begat....

Interesting look at the birth of the leftist tendencies of the modern Democratic Party.

Looking back sixty years later, the core ideas now the ideological heart of the Democratic Party are right there in Wallace's speeches, the first of which was that night. Moral relativism? Wallace believed Soviet military control over Eastern Europe was no different than American influence in Latin America. The United Nations? Wallace wanted the UN to reign supreme in areas not under the control of Russia or the United States, giving the UN control over all nuclear weapons and all major military bases around the globe. Blame America First? Unless America listened to him Wallace predicted the United States would "sooner or later" become "the image of that which we have hated in the Nazis."

The Wallace influence in the party is such that a advocate for a strong military like Joe Lieberman has no chance of ever gaining the Democratic nomination for President today. Democratic candidates seem to crave the support of people like MoveOn.org more than say a group like the American Legion. As long as this remains the case - the Democrats only chance to win the White House will be for the Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot.