. It is time for the DLC to jump into the nearest lake and drown!!!
What the hell type of organization goes around starting and promoting rumors that it's parties candidates can't win? Freaking nut-cases...I could see if they at least had a track record...NOT!!!!
Miles' support growing louder
Candidate says he's among those who 'aren't being heard'
By Jim Tankersley, Rocky Mountain News
June 8, 2004
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Miles faults the Bush administration for a black-and-white world view that he says includes "an agenda to wage war . . . for profit." He slams congressional leaders for not opposing it, and his voice rises again.
"If you are so easily misled," Miles says, "get out of the way, so other people can do your job." His voice drops. "I'm venting a little bit, but that's OK."
Many Miles supporters cite that anger - and that Bush critique - when describing why they like him. Others praise Miles for not being a traditional politician, or they talk about his resume, which also includes a degree from West Point and a stint as an Army ranger. (Miles' brother, an active duty soldier, is serving in Iraq.)
It sounds like a cross between Dean and Wesley Clark, the retired general who also ran for president. Of course, neither of those men won the Democratic nomination.
Miles thinks his outcome will be different. He says his grass-roots organization is better than Dean's was, that he'll win thanks to Democrats who are sick of cookie-cutter candidates.
His campaign, he says, "is about the party coming to grips with who we are. Do we want to be a party that relies on its traditional values and articulates the solutions that support it? Or do we want to be a party that figures out what the Republican position is and moves a little left of it?"
"Ken Salazar," he continues, "represents the establishment candidate who will be left of the Republicans."
Salazar is also considered by many Democratic leaders to be their best shot at beating a strong Republican candidate for the Senate seat in November. Salazar has won two statewide elections, he's very well-known and he's raised more than $1 million since entering the race in March.
Miles and his supporters are "ultra-partisans" who can't win in November, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council wrote in a recent e-mail. "Dishing a lot of red meat," the message said, "will not carry us to victory."
His supporters fire back angry responses, but Miles dismisses the Democratic Leadership Council and keeps his campaign going. "I don't care about attacks on me. I'm a West Pointer. I've been called - I've been hazed. Plus, I've been a middle school principal."