Reply #84: The Clintons gave up on universal health insurance

[Ken Burch]

(After refusing to even try single payer)they didn't raise funding for education, and as for SMALL business, the Clintons were both CEO groupies. There may be something more nauseating than corporate luxury boxes at a Democratic convention, but I can't think of it.

We can assume that future moderates will follow the Clinton model like robots, or go even further right. The last thing we need is to go back to being the party of Wilson or Cleveland.

And no, we don't think that Republicans will be "more sympathetic to the far left" than moderates(although that "far left" line rather falsely implies that we're a bunch of Khmer Rouge types or something)
but we do think the last three elections(2000, 2002 and 2004)show that triangulating and trying to sound Republican clearly doesn't work anymore.

A narrow defeat is still a defeat. Democrats need to stop playing defensive politics and start fighting to win, and centrists don't seem to be able to do that anymore.

A centrist would never have made the kind of showing Paul Hackett made in that congressional race in Ohio.