According to this piece over at TalkingPointsMemo:
It's the switchers, Third Way argues, who need to be brought back into the fold in 2012 to assure Democratic victory. That's a fairly conservative, pro-business, anti-regulation set. And so, they extrapolate, Democrats run the risk of cementing their 2010 support for the GOP if they align with Occupy Wall Street.
Sounds like political suicide to me. The people are in the streets and on the Street speaking out against economic collapse. Third Way wants Democrats to echo the Republican line. The only thing that is going to do is enable the Republican party line.
WHO IS THIRD WAY?
I'm serious about this. Who are the groups donors? I went to the FEC, Open Secrets and Third Ways websites. Nowhere do I see a list of who is giving to the group. Who is paying for this group? Certainly not small donors or ActBlue.
Let me make a suggestion that nobody is going to want to hear: Third Way is a Republican front. They funnel a relatively small amount of dollars from the Koch brothers and others to the Democratic party. They also repackage the ideology of the cult of conservativism into a moderate framework. If you are a Democratic elected official listening to Third Way you are taking advice from a Byzantine group designed both to make sure you lose elections and destroy your party.