2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)He's not part of Washington. In fact, let's play the game and pretend that EW is the Dem candidate, and Christie is her opponent--he can run on
1. I have executive experience as the head of one of the most densely populated and complex states in the nation;
2. I am not part of that "gridlock" problem on the Hill.
Keep pounding those two issues, and he can do a lot of damage.
Those don't work with HRC because she was part of the executive branch of government as SECSTATE (and she has foreign policy experience that Christie doesn't), and she had a strong reputation for sponsoring bipartisan legislation during her time in the Senate.
Continuing to play the "DLC" card is pure ignorance. I'm sorry, but it is. The "DLC" is no more. They died in 2008 and the corpse was dragged away in 2011. Their records were purchased and are in a few boxes in a back room at the Clinton Library. There is no "DLC" anymore. The Democratic party leader is a guy named Obama. The person running the day-to-day vision of the party is Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Obama's team beat the DLC; he won.
We are in a post-DLC era (and it is an era that is starting to focus on WOMEN as the future in terms of political leadership, to a very large extent--they do seem to do a better job at it and get better results), and probably the best thing a few dogs with bones on that subject could do is just get off that lame old "DLC" mule, it won't carry the argument or the day.