DLC left out Carter. Why?

[Dob Bole]

The DLC guy was mentioning people that we want to be the party of. He said, we want to be the party of Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton. He went through explaining the good aspects of each.

But he totally skipped over Carter. This can't be an accident. Why does the DLC not like Carter. Was he too "big government" in creating the departments of energy and education? Is his Nobel Peace Prize too mushy and liberal? Why would they mention Lyndon Johnson, who created the "Great Society" and not Carter, who most think to be something of a moderate?

[JohnKleeb]

1. what about RFK

and FDR

[Sean Reynolds]

7. More liberal than the DLC......

[blm]

2. Carter ran as a fairly centrist Democrat.

Heck, Kennedy ran against him because he thought Carter was TOO conservative.

Carter really evolved more left after leaving office.

[lcordero]

3. being against "big government" is just another way of saying

privatize everything
Privatizing at its plainest is enronizing.
I don't see FDR mentioned anywhere in there. Screw the DLC/PNAC!

[salin]

4. Perhaps he is too controversial these days, as he was quite outspoken

against the war in Iraq? :shrug:

[Skinner]

5. I suspect it is probably because...

...Carter's presidency is generally regarded as a failure by the American people. It's a PR thing. Kinda like how you never hear Republicans saying they want to be the party of Herbert Hoover.

[burr]

9. Carter is to the Democrats what Taft was to the Republicans.

A one-term President we should be proud of, and promote among our icons of morality, integrity, and fiscal discipline. The day our party turns its back on Carter is the day it turns its back on me.

[Dhalgren]

6. Carter was one of those Democrats

that the DLC just can't stand - the ones who place honesty and princlples before gain. A man that wouldn't lie to you just to get your vote. Yeah, definantly not DLC material!

[Sean Reynolds]

8. How can you place LBJ with the DLC?

Next to FDR he was the only president to really push the Social cause of our society. LBJ was a LIBERAL - not a DLCer.