Madfloridian's Journal - Harold Ford, Martin O'Malley think Bush is on the rocks, plan to "capture the center"...eeek

I do not want to hear another word about the "center". Not after what the center right Dems did to us this week-end. This is nothing but spin.

We just gave Bush a huge victory, gave him more power, gave Gonzo more power....and they think Bush is "on the rocks". He is winning the battle, my friends.

From the Washington Post today:

Our Chance to Capture the Center

With President Bush and the Republican Party on the rocks, many Democrats think the 2008 election will be, to borrow a favorite GOP phrase, a cakewalk. Some liberals are so confident about Democratic prospects that they contend the centrism that vaulted Democrats to victory in the 1990s no longer matters.

The temptation to ignore the vital center is nothing new. Every four years, in the heat of the nominating process, liberals and conservatives alike dream of a world in which swing voters don't exist. Some on the left would love to pretend that groups such as the Democratic Leadership Council, the party's leading centrist voice, aren't needed anymore.

More on that ethereal "center"....from the WP op ed by Harold Ford and Martin O'Malley.

But for Democrats, taking the center for granted next year would be a greater mistake than ever before. George W. Bush is handing us Democrats our Hoover moment. Independents, swing voters and even some Republicans who haven't voted our way in more than a decade are willing to hear us out. With an ambitious common-sense agenda, the progressive center has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win back the White House, expand its margins in Congress and build a political and governing majority that could last a generation.

Harold, get back to me on that "center" stuff after our party figures out why they voted to give Gonzo more power after watching him lie day after day on TV.

Oh, and Harold, this is not the very best week to reach out to the center and put down "the left". Not a good week at all.

They can not resist making stabs at that group they call "the left"..that term that to them encompasses nearly everyone but their little elite group.