Presidential elections are won by taking and holding the middle. B.J Clinton become the only ‘rat elected president the last thirty years by claiming to be a new, read moderate, democrat. For B.J.’s professed moderation we eight years of Janet Reno and Joyclyn Elders.
The vehicle for B.J. moderatation was Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC recently held a convention, which all democrate candates, including B.J.’s wife shunned in favor the Yearlly Kossack.
Shunned, albeit maybe not stunned, DLC chairman, Harald Ford, Jr.still professsed to hold the keys to the Oval Office:
“They’ll find their way back to the middle. And if they don’t, they won’t win.”
It seems unlikely that Ford cleared his statement with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, who now claims ot own the middle of the Democrat Party. If there is a key to the White House in democrat hands, in can not be both in hands of Ford and Zúniga. In fact the Pnch Sulzberger Blog thinks Zuniga owns the middle:
In fact, the online “progressive movement” led now by people like Mr. Moulitsas, a former Republican and U.S. Army veteran, has become much more acceptable and palatable to centrist and leading Democrats. And prominent or recognizable enough that the Republicans are now trying to link the 2008 candidates and Democratic party to a group it deems the far left – the liberal blogosphere.
Back in the real world, , Kimberley Strassel,,Real Clear Politics asks, “Will Democrats Abandon the Middle?” They already have.
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August 10th, 2007 at 9:57
Whether or not anybody, left or right, is going to buy into the idea that being in the middle is a good thing, to my mind remains an open question. Certainly, in your example of Kos, is an example that speaks against it. Further, there seems to me a rather large number of conservatives, who after eight years of GWB, Who are similarly unwilling to lean to the center. To that point, I am increasingly seeing references to Ronald Reagan, and his successes, and the question of whether not those successes were a result of his abandonment of the center. it’s an idea, frankly, that I have some sympathy for.
Frankly, I don’t think the center holds the mystique that it once did… For either side.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:35
As said in the post, only one demcorat has been elected President in the last thirty years and he feigned being a moderate. Sure George W. Bush has been a disapointment, but sane voters and not going to flock to socialist like Mrs. Clinton. She is only managing to appear sane and sober because the ‘rat pack is lurching hard left. The the republican faces is not a move of voters to Mrs. Clinton, but a failure motivation to vote.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:47
True… but they’re not flocking to McCain, who if anything was/is slightly to the left of Bush.