Having abandoned them they also made it impossible to win red states. Red staters aren't as likely to be white collar workers. We have no moral appeal to them if we don't emphasize economic issues. Robert Rubin presence in the Kerry camp made it impossible to do that. Robert Rubin only cares about wall street investers and they are 90% republican. Now the dlc tells us that the key to winning elections is hollywood bashing, but they still won't look at what is going on with the wages of the working class and working poor.
If they gain control of the party again the next election will be worse than the last. I am a disabled women from a union household. The dlc doesn't give a crap about people like me, other then allowing the mbna america lobbiest make it more difficult to declare bankrupcy. Tom Daschle's wife was a lobbiest for them. I am not sympathetic to the religious right, but there are no issues for me to vote on, with the dlc in charge. I was opposed to war, because I don't want my male relatives to get drafted but Kerry at the behest of the dlc favored it. Then all I had to vote on was Bush hatred. I wouldn't have ended up in this condition if I had health insurance. Something dlc stands four square against, in favor of low wage no benefit jobs.
Kerry offered people like me nothing but a paltry 2 dollar an hour increase in the minimum wage and bragged about how he voted for budget cuts in child care in favor of budget cutting. Women who are in the working poor category were supposed to stick their children in a trunk or something, while the paltry two dollar an hour minimum wage increase would lift them over a poverty line which hasn't been revised since the sixties. Puke.