I used to be a good Democrat. I was a Democratic elected official, serving twelve years in the Rhode Island Senate, two of those as majority leader. I was even a Democratic candidate for the US House of Representatives, being trounced (alas!) in November of 1992. But that was a long time ago. I was a different kind of Democrat than the kind typical in the party today. When I was born Franklin Roosevelt was president. I still think of him as the ideal Democrat. I also think very well of Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.