Democratic Hopefuls Snub Party Moderates

Source: Associated Press

Democratic hopefuls snub party moderates By RON FOURNIER
12 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.

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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cable network.

although I very much doubt several of them are actually doing that.

The DLC is not moderate.

unreal

The DLC might as well call themselves RepublicanLite. I'm glad the candidates aren't pandering to those assholes. They are nothing but a drag on our party.

Since when does the DLC represent ANYONE but corporate interests? :mad:

Nice headline, AP. Jesus Fucking Christ, did Fox News buy you too?

The DLC as moderates? :rofl: If you mean Corporate whore, Repuke-lite DINO moderates, then I guess you're right. :shrug:

can call the dlc moderates,then the rest of us are left leaning whacko's...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1401

And the College Democrats are having a convention at the same time. I do hope they go there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6F9mDbmRc

"Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, personally invites you to attend the 2007 College Democrats of America Convention in Columbia, South Carolina from July 26-29."

He and Carville need to wake up and see that they aren't fooling as many as they used to... fewer and fewer every day.

blasting Reid for keeping democratic candidates away from this summer meeting.

He looked a little mad. :)

I trust no one here is shocked by that.

Well, maybe I do know of a couple that might try to rationalize it... :rofl:

He'd prefer we nominate cheetahs or penguins?

Best wishes for a slow death, Al.

The fact that even Hillary won't publically attend the DLC bash is proof positive the DLC is becoming the kiss of death and on their way to becoming irrelevant.

Whew...about damn time. :)

We merely bitch and complain while sitting comfortably at our computers ...and eventually they listen.

May the DLC RIP. ...We have to flush out the corporatist candidates whether they’re a (D) or a (R)!!

with our corporate connections. The natives are getting restless about the seamier side of the game. Restless waiting for our employees to start doing the job we sent them to Washington to do:
Get a spine. Investigate. Impeach. Cheney first. Has everyone called/emailed their Rep. to implore them to sign onto Kucinich's House Re. 333???

He's got like 14 signed on. Needs a few more. If yours is not on board you should demand it. You may not have the courage to do a sit in at his office, but every day we fiddle, Iran is closer to burning. Start the process! End the madness! This is not a joke people, or a time to be just a keyboard jockey. Please don't feed me pelosi's talking points. We the people are just a "natural disaster" or another false flag terror attack away from a full blow police state. The papers have been signed, the ball is in motion...the time to save our democracy is today. Call your Rep. NOW!

We got a 15th today. :party:

And which three frontrunners have "corporate connections"?

Mike Gravel was sure adamant about our front runners having "corporate connections”.

Obama was proud of the fact that he helped push through the legislation that assisted Gravel with his findings. ...It was like...’Sure I have connections, but at lease I was honest enough to help you uncover them’.

...No wonder Hillary and Edwards wants to get rid of the so-called fringe candidates... the more these men on the sidelines talk...the worst the three of them look.

I already know that Obama and Clinton do, but who's the third?

From your post, you're implying that it's John Edwards. But guess what...

http://www.localnewswatch.com/skyvalley/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=136474



Now, you were saying something about Edwards...?

Shouldn’t we be afraid that Edwards might be swayed by his connections to an investment firm? I don't want to worry about whether or not he's granting favors or giving pay-backs? We were all outraged when we learned Papa Bush was the Senior advisor to (war profiteering) the Carlyle Group...well Edward’s Senior Advisor position with Fortress Investment Group should make us all sit up, take notice and question where will his loyalty lie?

Edwards always appears to be the nice guy. He'll pat himself on the back for apologizing about being stupid enough to give oil hungry Bush the power to invade Iraq...But he never fesses up to co-sponsoring Lieberman's Iraq War Resolution. ...Seems a little two-faced to me.

You mean somwbody like Kerry instead of Dean? Stuff it, Al From!

A moderate enabler of the robber baron class, that is.

Nothing against the many excellent Democrats who have been nominal DLC members primarily just to gain access to certain outlets -- Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, for example -- but the organization itself is a sick joke, as is Al From.

Click on the following site and gaze at top while the list of DLC Leaders phase in and out. :wow:

" 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."

It's not even in an "analysis" section!?

The DNC - Democratic National Committee -- is a totally different entity from the DLC - Democratic Leadership Council. The former, currently headed by Howard Dean, is an actual progressive organization.

between the DLC, who wanted to concentrate on pushing a handful of Dems, and the DNC, who wanted to push all of them. I've been wondering what was the final outcome of all that...

:eyes:
rocknation

Bullshit! DLC is conservative economics masquerading in Democratic clothing.

I thought they were the neocon/libertarian lite/repug lite infiltrators of the Dem party.

The DLC actually stands for Democrats Losing Constituents, and it's about time the Dems caught on.

but he has the balls to fight. Demand your Rep. sign on to HR 333 to impeach cheney and nefarious house of cards will being to topple. No more eyeing Iran, a halt on our galloping toward a police state.

Oh yeah, they're all moderates, aren't they? Just look at that swine, Joe Lieberman. Isn't he a member of the DLC?

porcine - resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish
gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.

:rofl:

because they got TO BE Democratic hopefuls by snubbing their party's moderates!


rocknation

Give me a break! Joe Liberman is one.
REPUKES-LITE they are!

but then found that all of you had already adequately put out the message that I would have posted.

DLC: Centrists? Yeah right...maybe the Repugnant center.

:^)

"Democrats have a long history of nominating people, including people who have lost badly."

....especially those DLC Democrats....and put one office, it's as good as 'losing badly'....

....'From' Here to Eternity, losing elections the al from and DLC way....on behalf of Corporate America, we do our duty and take the dive....

....but we still hold our conservative Dem heads high, for we keep those progressive grassroots commies out of office and our corporate sponsors satisfied with harmless candidates....

I knew it.

their conference. Hum? :eyes:

Figures that the father of Plan Colombia, and the saviour of the School of the Americas, will be there to receive the accolates of the likes of Al From and Marshall Whitman.