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In 1936, prior to German boxing champ Max Schmelings first fight with the up-and-coming Joe Louis, Max was watching a movie of Louis in the ring. I sink I see somesing! said the German. He noticed that Louis had a habit of lowering his left hand after a left jab.

That observation paid off big for Schmeling, who crashed across with a match-winning right-hand blow that rendered Louis unable to continue.

Now I sink I see somesing far more important than any boxing match.

I think I see a way for the Republicans to land a blow that will eviscerate the Democrats by causing massive defections in their ranks.

This bit of background explains why this idea chose me to connect with. I didnt meet my first Republican until the age of 25! But thats not amazing if you grew up in North Carolina in the era when Republicans were very rare.

The Democrats you met were fine, normal, wonderful people salt of the earth, oregano of the universe. They worked hard, played fair, attended church, supported the Boy- and the Girl Scouts and the Red Cross, went uncomplainingly to fight in World Wars, aided the poor and obeyed laws. The men didnt beat their wives and did not knowingly associate with those who did, and they lived praiseworthy lives keynoted by what we now call traditional values.

The lives of all those Democrats I grew up with were light-years away from todays Schumerites and Pelosicrats.

Wars have been won when military intelligence learns the enemy is weak around the middle. Thats Step-1 in divide-and-conquer. They may never think of it. They may not realize it. They may want to slap you or slug you if you bring it up. But never mind that.

The majority of those who call themselves Democrats may not be Democrats at all!

Theres a chasm separating those who run the Democrat machinery and the Democrats I grew up with. That chasm is wide and tempting.

The Republicans should get busy and find a polite way to ask the millions of Democratic voters, Are you sure youre still a Democrat?

The Republicans should then utilize the ways and means of letting most of them know theyre not!

Former Democratic presidents, like President John F. Kennedy, would not be allowed to speak at Democratic Conventions these days. Abortion! Contraceptives handed out to high school students! Government-run medicine! Fuhgeddaboudit!

Are you going to tell me theres a similarity of political DNA linking todays leading Democrats and the likes of Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson? Shake the tree of Democratic discontent and dodge all the nice falling fruit.

Theres no need for secrecy. Take the provable truths only theres no need to fabricate or exaggerate. Take those truths, put it all out there, spread it around and pound it home.

Are you sure youre still a Democrat? is the question. Reagan gave us a good quote, namely, I didnt leave the Democratic Party. The party left me! Then, using media, town halls, word of mouth, everything short of carrier pigeons, lay out, as comic Jimmy Durante used to say, da conditions dat prevail!

Hillary Clinton offers a nice contrast between the Democratic Party that once attracted them and todays conditions that prevail. The leading Democrats today apparently hate Trump more than they love Americans. Weve got every kind of falsification of government figures twisted to make the Obama crowd look not-so-bad. Weve even got falsification of temperature data to make climate change seem more plausible. Weve got Loretta Lynch and her sneaky airport visit with Bill Clinton. Weve got Debbie Wasserman Schultz greasing the skids for Hillary who, without the cheating, may well have lost the Democratic nomination to a socialist independent.

Weve got the attempted flood of Mideast refugees who could have been much better served by American support of safe zones. Weve got hostility against Israel (the only democracy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean), plus Susan Ross, John Podestas emails alongside Hillarys, rock-solid obstruction of all Trump initiatives, breathtaking quotes from the DNC team of Perez and Ellison. One of our talking points can be just one word Chicago!

The Vietnam War could have ended much earlier if the arrogant peace movement in America, instead of denouncing those who joined them late, had taken the position of Welcome, Brother!

The GOP should praise the Democratic Party of old. And let this huge mass of Democrats-by-Amnesia know theyre not being attacked. Theyre being reminded. The Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again Democratic Party has tectonically shifted. Maybe millions of you would be more comfortable as Republicans today.

This initiative needs no funding, no meetings, no RNC committee approval.

Hey there, Brother. Theres a good possibility you belong with us!

Are you sure youre still a Democrat?

Asking people if theyre sure theyre what they most likely are is not a static absurdity. It once was unthinkable to ask someone, Are you sure youre female? No more! Rodney Dangerfield once said the most romantic thing a woman ever said to him in bed is Are you sure youre not a cop?

Its much nicer and possibly nation-saving to ask, Are you sure youre still a Democrat?

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has certainly been making waves since he assumed his post earlier this year, but his most controversial statement might have been his excommunication of any pro-life Democrat from his partys enforced orthodoxy.

According to the Huffington Post, Perez said: Every Democrat, like every American, should support a womans right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

His statement is consistent with the Democratic Party platform, which states, In addition to expanding the availability of affordable family planning information and contraceptive supplies, we believe that safe abortion must be part of comprehensive maternal and womens health care and included as part of Americas global health programming. Abortion must be a part of all American health-care efforts around the globe, which presumably means here at home as well.

This statement responded to the recent uproar over Democratic Omaha mayoral candidate Heath Mello, whom progressive publication Rewire has characterized as an aggressively anti-choice Democrat. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made headlines while campaigning for Mello when he told NPR, If we are going to protect a womans right to choose, at the end of the day were going to need Democratic control over the House and the Senate, and state governments all over this nation, and we have got to appreciate where people come from, and do our best to fight for the pro-choice agenda. But I think you just cant exclude people who disagree with us on one issue.

Obviously, there are two very different visions of the Democratic Party here. There is the Democratic establishment, represented by Perez and the official platform, which are committed to ideological purity and firmly entrenched as a pro-abortion party. On the other side, an alliance seems possible between pro-life and pro-choice Democrats. Mello and Sanders have disagreed on the issue of abortion historically (although Mello does seem to be trying to temper his statements and voting record), but they come together on many other issues so are willing to sacrifice ideological purity to get Democrats into office.

The Democratic Party is stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place, and neither option shows an obvious path to future success as Democrats look forward to 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential year.

The party can take the hardline vision of Perez and its official platform. They can tell pro-life Democrats that they have no place in the party. Yet this appears to be a losing strategy. According to a 2015 poll from Gallup, 55 percent of American adults think abortion should be illegal in only a few circumstances or illegal in all circumstances. Although the survey does not get more specific than this, a majority of Americans do not favor unfettered access to abortion. Most American adults want limits. Throwing this majority of American adults out of the party doesnt seem to be an effective way to gain voters.

When you couple this with political movements such as the American Solidarity Party already in place to attract people who are economically liberal but socially conservative, these pro-life Democrats have an option to escape to if they are not comfortable with the Republican Party as the traditional pro-life party.

However, consider the scenario if the Democratic Party goes the direction of Mello and Sanders. To many people it seems reasonable to agree to disagree on a certain issue and work together for those items of agreement. Economic justice would be a rather obvious issue for the Democratic Party to unite around. It was the message Sanders rode to a serious chance at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. It is similar to the approach the Tea Party took when they united around economic issues such as lower taxes and reduced government spending. Perhaps Tea Party members did not agree on everything, but they were extraordinarily focused on a few issues that brought them together.

The problem with that in this case is many people on the Left think economic justice is not possible without access to abortion. Bryce Covert, the economic policy editor at ThinkProgress, wrote for The New York Times, Any woman who has had to decide whether she could afford to keep a baby will most likely be able to tell you that economics is deeply embedded in her choice.

Emily Crockett wrote in Rolling Stone, They [pro-choice advocates] wondered if Democrats will ever stop automatically treating reproductive freedom like a mere social issue, and start recognizing it as critical to womens economic and social equality.

Emily Arrowood of U.S. News & World Report went as far as to say that Progressives wouldnt stomach a Democratic candidate who questioned the necessity of Brown v. Board of Education, so why might we make an exception when it comes to womens economic well-being?

Clearly, a branch of the Democratic Party is not open to this type of moderate style and big-tent ideology. As much as exiling pro-lifers from the Democratic Party will push away a majority of the population, the opposite wing of the Democratic Party will be upset if abortion rights are not considered an essential part of being a Democrat.

It is clear that the Democratic Party has to make a choice, but it is not clear which choice will ultimately help them compete politically. Either option is going to isolate certain voters and cause them to reconsider voting for the Democratic Party.

If pro-lifers are not allowed in the party, they are going to find somewhere else to vote. If progressives dont feel that the Democratic Party platform goes far enough, it would not be surprising to see a progressive movement take a more extreme position on this issue and effectively split the Democratic Party in a way that will never be able to overcome a Republican majority if that party manages to remain unified. Ironically, it could look very much like the large number of progressives who decided to write in Sanders name rather than vote for the establishment candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, or what happened to George Bush Sr. because of Ross Perot in 1992.

A party divided over a central issue in the American two-party system is going to have a very hard time winning many elections nationally or even locally.

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Sally Yates speaks during a press conference to announce environmental and consumer relief in the Volkswagen litigation at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on June 28, 2016. (Getty)

Sally Yates will testify before a Senate subcommittee today, discussing what she told the Donald Trump administration regarding Michael Flynns alleged ties to Russia.

When the Trump administration fired Yates as acting attorney general in January, theWhite House dismissed her as a partisan Democrat who had a bone to pick with Donald Trump and who made this decision for political purposes.

Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration, the statement read. It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.

So is it true that Sally Yates is a partisan? What is her political affiliation?

Sally Yates is indeed a Democrat. She was appointed by President Barack Obama, and Democrats in Georgia right now are even reportedly trying to recruit Yates to run for governor, according to Politico.

Also, after graduating from the University of Georgia Law School, one of Sally Yates first jobs was as a staff assistant to CongressmanJack Brinkley, a Democrat.

I dont think you can think of any possible candidates in Georgia and not mention Sally Yates name right now, Tharon Johnson, national southern regional director Barack Obamas re-election campaign, told Politico. Shes a symbol of hope and resistance when it comes to standing up to Donald Trump.

However, Yates has generally kept quiet about her own political views, and she has been supported by both sides of the political aisle. In 2015, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Yates84 to 12, and Republican SenatorJohnny Isakson had nothing but praise for Yatesduring her confirmation hearing.

Sally is a great hero of the state of Georgia for 25 years shes been in the office of Northern District of Georgia prosecuting criminal on public integrity all kind of things like the Olympic Park bombing, Isakson said. For the last five years, shes been the chief attorney, and shes proved herself over and over and over again to be to be effective to be fair to be diligent and to be the kind of person that you would want representing you in the U.S. Attorneys office.

Its not as if Yates has only gone after Republicans, either. For instance, she lead the prosecution of Democrat Bill Campbell, the mayor of Atlanta.

Shes never has been an opportunist, and she has never made her decisions based on the politically expedient thing, Former U.S. RepresentativeBuddy Darden told Politico. She calls it like she sees it.

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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) is making good on his offer to attend a town hall meeting in the place of a Republican colleague who won't be there.

Maloney plans to attend a town hall hosted by a local chapter of anti-President Trump group Indivisible in a neighboring New York district on Monday night in the place of Rep. John Faso (R-N.Y.), who represents that area.

The Indivisible chapter said itinvited Faso to the Kingston, N.Y., town hall to explain his vote for the GOPs healthcare bill last week, but he isnt expected to attend.

Faso spokeswoman Courtney Weaver said Monday afternoon that the freshman lawmaker has a previously scheduled event on Mondaynight and never received an invitation to the Indivisible town hall.

"This is a purely partisan political rally," Weaver said. "Now Maloney has reverted to form as a hyper-partisan seeking to advance himself in the eyes of his patrons in Albany and Washington. It's sad."

"Maybe a Democrat ought to go into every district where a Republican who supported TrumpCare won't hold a town hall meeting, and do it for them," Maloney said.

Maloney, who was first elected to the House in 2012, is one of 12 Democrats who represents a district won by President Trump. Maloney won reelection by 11 points in November, while Trump carried the district by 2 points.

Weaver noted that Maloney and Faso had appeared at a joint event at Marist College in April, where local news reports described the discussion as "amicable."

At least one other House Democrat has joined in on Maloneys adopt a district challenge.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) announced he plans to attend a rally in Tucson on Tuesday to denounce fellow Arizona Rep. Martha McSally (R) for supporting the healthcare bill and to urge the states two Republican senators, John McCainJohn McCainHouse Democrat plans to attend town hall for GOP lawmaker GOP senator pushes to improve hiring process for border patrol agents McCain takes on Tillerson's 'transactional' foreign policy MORE and Jeff FlakeJeff FlakeHouse Democrat plans to attend town hall for GOP lawmaker GOP senator pushes to improve hiring process for border patrol agents 'Path of least resistance' problematic for Congress MORE, to oppose it.

McSallys district went for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonDebra Messing to Ivanka Trump: 'Please stop blindly defending your father' House Democrat plans to attend town hall for GOP lawmaker Comey: Twitter is 'like every dive bar in America' MORE in 2016 by 5 points over Trump.

Maloneys idea to adopt a district started when Fasos constituents, apparently unable to reach their representative, called his office on the day of the House vote on the GOP legislation to repeal and replace the healthcare law.

Hey @RepJohnFaso could you turn your phones on? Your #NY19 constituents are calling my office. #Trumpcare Maloney tweeted hours ahead of the vote.

A spokesman for the House GOP campaign arm dismissed Maloneys plans to appear in a district that he doesnt represent.

Sean 'MIA' Maloney is preoccupied with scoring cheap political points while his constituents are left behind. Perhaps Maloney should spend less time lecturing people outside his district and more time listening to those in his own, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Chris Martin said.

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