From the DLC website and their own words

[MelissaB]

re: the Party which brought a New Deal, a Square Deal, a New Frontier, and a Great Society, etc., to America; and, which has expanded the promise this country has had to offer its people .....

" ... the DLC and the New Democrats have offered the most durable and sustained effort to oppose the dominant liberal faction of their party.

~snip~

"Ultimately, it is success in winning such offices, plus a continuing hold on the presidency, that will institutionalize the New Democrat philosophy further. And with each victory, it will be harder and harder to return to the liberalism that preceded it."

Link: http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=127&subid=171&contentid=955

Getting in bed with Diebold is a big ticket to that ultimate goal.

With "Democrats" like these, who needs coup d'etats to impose PNAC and right-wing agendas on America?

This was posted by cosmicdot in this thread. I thought it deserved it's own.