Reply #116: You are making up conspiracy theories here

[karynnj]

Gore was as close to a charter member of the DLC as you can get. He was the first person they endorsed to run for President in 1988. They also pushed Bill Clinton, who they endorsed in 1992 to take him as VP. (He was not even on the 10 names that Time magazine speculated about.) He was the Democrat, who pushed other Democrats to accept NAFTA. He was also a very conservative Democrat, who voted the DLC line.

As to Edwards, he likely had no political philosophy when he started to run for the Senate and he voted as a very conservative DLC Democrat. He moved to the left for 2008 for one major reason - there was no room to run to the right of Hillary Clinton.

As to the 2004 disaster, what are you talking about. Given that Bush was at 60 percent in December 2003, the risk was that the Democrats would lose in a landslide that would absolutely demoralize them. Instead, to win, the Republicans needed to cheat in Ohio (not putting adequate voting machines in Democratic areas), use gay marriage as a wedge issue, use the likelihood of picking 2 or more Supreme Court Justices to get the Catholic church to weigh in on their side, and to get the media to assist them in a character assassination that ignored that there was an intact official record 100% on Kerry's side.

The fact is that Kerry is the most liberal nominee the party has fielded for decades - far to the left of Edwards and Gore. Not to mention, you might have noticed the Clinton wing of the party (DLC ?) for the most part sat on its hands - doing just enough that they couldn't be easily blamed.