Democratic hopefuls snub party moderates

[ProSense]

Democratic hopefuls snub party moderates

By RON FOURNIER 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton will be there. So will 300 officeholders from more than 45 states. But one thing will be missing when Democrats gather in Tennessee this weekend to discuss how to appeal to moderate, independent-minded voters in 2008: the Democratic presidential field.
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Not a single one of the eight presidential candidates plans to attend the Democratic Leadership Council's summer meeting, a snub that says less about the centrist DLC than it does about a nomination process that rewards candidates who pander to their parties' hardened cores while ignoring everybody else.

"They have tunnel vision," DLC founder Al From said of his fellow Democrats.

From said he has nothing against Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, or the other seven Democratic presidential candidates. He even understands why they won't attend the DLC meeting.

But that doesn't make him worry any less about the future of his party.

"Presidents are elected in the middle and they are elected by being bigger than their party. Neither parties' activists alone can elect somebody president," From said in a telephone interview from his Washington office. "Democrats have a long history of nominating people, including people who have lost badly. The challenge for Democrats is to nominate somebody who can win the election."

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Pudding, and you know what they say about pudding!

[GeorgeGist]

1. Democratic Leadership Council...

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[msongs]

2. "not going" and "snub" are NOT the same - "snub" is an editorial opinion nt

[PSPS]

3. "Party moderates?" The DLC is to the right of Nixon.

[peace frog]

18. I heard that

"Moderates" my ass. <snort>

[ixion]

4. the DLC is no friend to the Democratic Party

and they would be wise to continue to ignore them, IMO.

[Name removed]

5. Deleted message

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[ProSense]

6. Kick! n/t

[Peregrine Took]

7. DLC = RNC.

[illinoisprogressive]

8. the dlc wing is going but, only one clinton can afford to go

[hollywoodlib]

9. They'll come back to them for the election

Why go after the moderates now. Swing voters don't vote in the primaries

[ProSense]

11. Al From isn't a moderate,

he belongs in the Lieberman Party!

[Like It Is]

16. Who told you that?

That's about the most asinine statement I ever heard. If my candidate for the nomination loses, I can become a swing voter.

[democratsin08]

10. lets listen here

we do seem to be lurching rather far left. this is why i support a return to the moderate clinton presidency with hillary.

[ProSense]

12. Lurching far left? More like leaving

behind silly positions that claim being moderate is fully supporting the war (sometimes disguised as supporting the occupation of Iraq for decades).

There are moderates and then there are morons. Al From is not a moderate.

[AtomicKitten]

13. somebody's peeking ...

[Like It Is]

14. Let's try this again, Maybe I won't upset anyone this time.

I wish Joe Biden had attended the DLC Meeting. Bill Clinton is going as Hillary's surrogate, he'll make more points there than she would. I believe that Hillary running for President after Bill served 2 terms is an end run around the 2 term limit. Husband and wife are like one. If the moderator wants to delete this, go ahead. But be prepared to hear it in the fall of 2008 when you face the Repug candidate. We will then have had nearly 20 years of Bush, Clinton, Bush. Are there no other people in this vast country. Biden comes to mind for me. What comes after 8 years of Hillary? Eight years of Jeb Bush followed By 8 years of Chelsea? The next POTUS will come from the middle, not the extreme right or left.

[ProSense]

15. Kick! n/t

[ProSense]

17. The Death of Triangulation?

The Death of Triangulation?

[AtomicKitten]

19. Neither Gore in 2000 nor Kerry in 2004 attended DLC clam bakes

during the primary, but they both did once nominated.

So, there's that.