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Excellent post. Another part of their "dirty little secret", is that the democratic party leadership and most democrats, have a much more liberal agenda across every issue which they wish to foist upon the unsuspecting middle of American voters. But to do this, they have to both claim a more centrist position than they really believe in, and as you said, to use any convenient hypocritcal distortion and criticism of republican policies to damage republican office holders. The Clintons are masters of this.