Lay off the DLC already. Whether you like it or not, if your a registered Dem, they're on your side. Teams can disagree about strategy and tactics, but when it comes time to contend against the opposing team you either cooperate or you lose. Granted we were pretty unified this last time but that loss I attribute more to a lousy quarterback and coaches, to extend the metaphor ad nauseum.
What DLCers and Dem moderates in general must find amusing if somewhat exasperating, is all this apparent liberal vengefulness. Amusing because after all the rhetorical hot air dissipates, it is the DLC and they alone that can point to a winning track record nationally amid a rising tide GOP dominance since Reagan. To any reasonably objective eye, doctrinal Liberals are indeed currently on the wrong side of history. That may well change, but for now there absolutely no evidence of it doing so anytime soon.
Grow up. Get over it. Lose the hypocrisy. Quit talking about being more enlightened, peaceful, centered etc. Instead actually practice those mantras by identifying why liberal and centrist Dems are both Democrats then relocate that common ground we shared in the 90's. If you didn't vote for Clinton then you're excused. As for the rest, I'M TALKIN TO YOU!
We Democrats either actually are a diverse big tent party or we're no better than the GOP, who cynically play at it so as to co opt our natural blue collar, minority and female base. They can only do so because that base finds republican rhetoric more appealing than our reality: the reality of an out of touch party largely dominated by wine swilling blue state yuppies, aging hippies and white college kids that delusionally cling to some revisionist pipe dream of failed "Great Society" socialism.
Flash: mainstream America and growing numbers of new Americans are simply over that. What there not and don't want to be over is their strong attraction to the "Progressive Libertarianism" (as coined by Chris Nolan) of a McCain or an Arnold (didn't want to hazard spelling his last name). They loved and supported Clinton even as the GOP unleashed all they had at him. They rejected the eastern elitist liberal Kerry.
So the choice, as always, is ours. Find that common ground and message that makes us Democrats then take that renewed message and recover our rightful base and place as majority party. Or allow failed doctrinal abstraction to divide and conquer us once again.
So what'll be Punk? Majority or minority? Feeling lucky?