Letters to the Editor
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Slackie Nails It, As Always
The sooner the Democratic Party ditches the DLC folks, the DINOs and Blue Dogs, the better. I feel like the Obama candidacy versus the Clintons reflects those two approaches going toe-to-toe for the future of the Democratic Party: the door-to-door volunteers/grassroots/netroots against the party-powerful but publicly-disconnected political insiders.
The future of the Democratic Party isn't with the grasstops, DINO insiders -- that's the Clintonian past. It's not with the DLC or the Blue Dogs -- or more accurately, if those folks win, the Democratic Party stops being the Democratic Party I've supported all my life, and simply becomes the Republicratic Party, and we're supposed to act like we don't know the difference -- give me a new New Deal; don't give me a Raw Deal and tell me it's new.
The GOP are on the wrong side of every issue, when you look at where people's hearts and heads are -- that's a mandate, that's a silent majority, and it's there for the taking. But the DLC types don't see it as that -- they see the public as an enemy to be reckoned with, managed and manipulated, versus who you want on your side in a fight. I'll take an energized, 50-state real-life Democratic Party over a demoralized, defensive, grasstops DINO Party, any day.
-- Slackie Onassis
Friday, January 25, 2008 07:36 AM
I believe Edwards is the true post-DLC future of the party, but Obama is certainly light-years closer to the grass roots than Hillary.
Even 2006 wasn't enough to kill the DLC. Looks like we're going to have to get medieval on their asses - hanging, disembowelment, chopped into pieces and scattered to the four corners of the nation, burned and covered in lime, buried under tons of granite engraved with incantations against reincarnation ....