Reply #71: Then what is Dean doing so differently from the DLC?

[arissa]

It seems to me that he's running a real DLC-type campaign, in many ways. He's run to the center on several issues - the only thing I've personally seen him stand his ground on that isn't a DLC-approved issue is the war in Iraq (and like someone else said earlier, it's easy for him to be anti-war when he didn't have to vote on it).

He goes in front of the cameras and refers to himself as a centrist, he's got a buncha "safe" stances on key issues the DLC considers unsafe to be liberal, and most of the rest of his issues involve compromises or throwing bones to the left (in my opinion). Sounds like a campaign right out of the DLC playbook to me.

But that is just my perception of what he's been doing. Kucinich is the one running the anti-DLC-style campaign, imho.