http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2003/08/07/editorial/francis_volpe/volp

[Nicholas_J]

The DLC is known mainly for being the forum from which Bill Clinton launched his successful campaign for president in 1992. But no other Democratic candidates have benefitted much from the group's wisdom

Now the DLC is ganging up on Dean, claiming he's "too liberal" to get elected because of his stand on the war. Oddly, that just what Republican Rep. Tom DeLay told a gathering of young Republicans last week. An ostensibly Democratic organization should be able to come up with a slightly more original message - perhaps even one that's not counterproductive.

There's a theory among political professionals that "rage" among liberals about George W. Bush could get Dean nominated, but that he would lose in a replay of the Nixon-McGovern landslide. But that ignores two factors. One is that Dean is nowhere near as liberal now as George McGovern was then.

The other is that the Democratic party regulars - the people who do all the grunt work of turning out voters - walked away from the McGovern campaign. Many "main street" Democrats were left behind by the McGovern victory, and they perceived a McGovern loss in November would restore their prestige.

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2003/08/07/editorial/francis_volpe/volpe01.txt

The thory being, that if Dean gets the nomination, the Nixon McGovern landslide would kick in, or in the second case, that Deans getting the nominations would cause Dean a LARGE loss of the DLC support, causing most of the people who support the DLC candidates and do all of the day to day work to simply walk away from working for the party, giving Bush an enormous advantage, and Dean hsing to totally rely only on his own campaign machine and NO assistance from DLC workers to get his message out, as they did with McGovern.

All those who support the DLC will feel betrayeed by a Dean victory, and the party will be parayzed, and Dean crushed by a well oiled and well supplied Republican Machine.

Dean would be left isolated with staff pushed too far to actually compete with Bush at all.

[hedda_foil]

1. Nicholas, please edit your subject in both this and the dupe.

It's scrolling off the side of the page because you copied a long url into the subject header.

Thanks

hedda

[quinnox]

2. Request

Could we not put thread headlines that are web addresses? It looks really ugly, and gives no information on what the thread is about, just a pet peeve of mine.

[whirlygigspin]

3. well maybe this will counter the DLC

Labor, environmental and women's organizations, with strong backing from international financier George Soros, have joined forces behind a new political group that plans to spend an unprecedented $75 million to mobilize voters to defeat President Bush in 2004.

The organization, Americans Coming Together (ACT), will conduct "a massive get-out-the-vote operation that we think will defeat George W. Bush in 2004," said Ellen Malcolm, the president of EMILY's List, who will become ACT's president.

ACT already has commitments for more than $30 million, Malcolm and others said, including $10 million from Soros, $12 million from six other philanthropists, and about $8 million from unions, including the Service Employees International Union.

The formation of ACT reflects growing fears in liberal and Democratic circles that with Republicans likely to retain control of Congress, a second Bush term could mean passage of legislation, adoption of regulations and the appointment of judges that together could devastate left-supported policies and institutions.

more?br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31042-2003Aug7.html

[RevolutionStartsNow]

4. Wow that's cool

George Soros continues to use his money for good purpose.

No matter which Dem nominee you all support, you should put some time into getting out the vote. Get people registered, work the phones, talk to people about absentee voting, whatever you need to do -- I think this is the key to beating Bush.

[MercutioATC]

5. If I cared what the DLC thought, this would mean something...

...but I don't. They're certainly entitled to make up theories. That doesn't mean that they have a clue as to what they're talking about.

I DO find it interesting that you think Dean is too conservative, the DLC thinks he's too liberal, and yet you have no problem foretelling doom for the Democratic Party based solely on DLC propaganda.