Madfloridian's Journal - One paragraph by Al From right after our win in November...I saw red.

I did not digest the rest of the article. The rest did not matter after he called us "noisy activists" and used Lieberman's win in CT to say that centrism was what we really wanted. It was dishonest, because Lieberman was elected by Republicans only after he left the Democratic Party to become an Independent.

Al From, one of the leaders of the DLC, was dishonest in this article.

Democrats must adopt a centrist course

There's a perception in some media and political circles that Democratic White House wannabes, like their Republican counterparts, must systematically bend the knee to ideologically inflexible and noisy party activists to have any prayer of nomination or election. They should pay attention to what happened in Connecticut on Nov. 7, where even in a strongly anti-war blue state, voters rejected a high-profile effort to exclude Joe Lieberman from the Democratic Party. The reality is that, unlike the Republicans who are a much more homogenous party, Democrats can only win with a broad coalition. An expanded party base depends on a spirit of inclusiveness; certainly the House Democratic caucus is more ideologically diverse than it was before Election Day. To remain in the majority, it will need to stay that way.

Think about how he worded that part about "noisy party activists". Think about how he worded the part about Lieberman being "excluded" from the party.

Here are the DLC leaders. Do they all think of us as "noisy party activists"? Do they all still hang with Joe Lieberman because of a "high profile" effort to exclude him from the party?

From the About page at the DLC.

http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ka.cfm?kaid=137

Al From is on the far right.

Today their new leader came up with some good ideas. Are they changing their philosophy, or as someone said in another thread...tossing a bone to us. Are they going to stop the name calling toward those in the party who stand up to their philosophy?

From one of their founders, Simon Rosenberg...why they were formed.

Simon Rosenberg, the former field director for the DLC who directs the New Democrat Network, a spin-off political action committee, says, "We're trying to raise money to help them lessen their reliance on traditional interest groups in the Democratic Party. In that way," he adds, "they are ideologically freed, frankly, from taking positions that make it difficult for Democrats to win."

Here are the positions that make it "difficult for Democrats to win." These are my own thoughts from observing how our Dems tippytoe around them trying to be so inclusive of the other side.

1. Gay rights
2. Women's rights like abortion and contraception
3. National security...using it as an issue and playing to it has us in a war we are losing and might lead us into another by all our Dem leaders posturing.

Good ideas are good ideas, unless they are wrapped in too much corporate power and too much bitterness toward activists in the party.

Fringe activists
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/...