Reply #27: If we believe the center of american politicsis owned by the GOP

[Perky]

then we are doomed to sit on the sidelines. Look you seem to believe that the middle class suburbanite is a) dumb (which is the very elitism we are decried for) and not important to electability of our candidates which is naive at best.

I think it is stunning when we decry, on the one-hand, that the Rebublicans are trying to gut the middle class when we ourselve want to sacrifice them on the altar of our "ideals" Suvh a view relegates us to anachronistic status in the eyes of those we should be trying to steal away from the GOP

I choose to be relevant rather than joust at windmills. I choose approachability of new ideals over the Phyrric foolisheness of old school liberalism which is repeatedly rejected by manstream voters.

Our ideals are not, can not be driven by archaic politics of the past. if we do not win the hearts and minds of the middle class by appealing to their basic political instincts then shame on us for rejecting them.