What ever happened to this type of democrat?

You've experienced political redshift. You are moving away from a stationary object, but from your perspective it appears that object is moving away from you.

In reality, liberals have changed very little singe Kennedy, but conservatives are tripping over themselves in their mad dash to the right.

Probably the same thing that happened to this kind of Republican:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

We realized you conservatives don't believe in putting country before party!

Would you like to talk about how the republicans got together the night Obama was sworn in to discuss how best to oppose him for political gain? The gain being making Obama into a one term president!

With the election of the progressivist Bill Clinton the moderate democrat party dissolved, we saw the last of them thrown under the bus by the Obama administration to bring about Obamacare. Seems the greater majority of them became republicans, there isn't much difference between a moderate republican and a moderate democrat, they're both very patriotic American minded people.

I've been a moderate republican for close to 50 years, I've always been moderate because I have always been a minority among a majority of moderate democrats, 'When in Rome'.

I would settle for the kind that, while they may make promises to the "disadvantaged" for political gain, the also remind them of the full terms of the social contract and their obligation within those terms. Meaning, everyone else contributes to your care and feeding, in exchange you will obey the laws, exercise responsibility in breeding and parenting, and make progress towards lifting the burden off of those who do provide the means to your subsistence. Seems simple enough, but for some reason the last half of the message doesn't get broadcast.

No, they still exist.

You just voluntarily believe the typical liberal stereotype.

It's politics.They are out for themselves. Yeah im cynical.

you realize that's asking for more support for the federal government, right?

nothing like a plantation reference to really nail home conservative racism

Lol