Reply #3: Unfortunately

[Nicholas_J]

The DLC like the U.S. government has some obligation to support the U.N. and the decisions it makes in order to oppose other actions taken against the U.N. and international law when one leader decides to buck international law and agreements.

I am not surprised that the democatic party lost this election more in part due to the inability of the members of the Democrtic Party to simply get behind the party, in spite of differences that each individual member has with the overall decisions of the group. That is where the stregth of the Republican lies. Though not all R$epublicans totally agree with Bush, they know one thing. To win you must back the decisions made by the party, even though you do not agtree with every decision made. Very much like candidates who threaten to take their supporters and use them against the party when the party decides it is going to select someone else as its candidate. Or openly attacks the party party leadership when it disagrees. Airing ones disagreemente in public gives the opposing side all of the aammunition it needs to defeat the Democrats.

Simply put, we had candidates who openly attacked their own party, rther than work from within it to make changes. You rarely sawRepublicans who disagree with Bush declare open war on the Republican Party.

However during this election cycle there were several candidates who openly attacked the Democratic Party, its leadership, which is composed of people who were for the most part, Democratically elected bt\y their constituents to represent. The DLC therefore is a body made up of people who were CHOSEN by their constitutency to represetn THEIR will. Thus the DLC represents the will of the majority of the ekectorate.

Most of Bush's campaign consisted of phrases take directly from the campaigns of candidates who attacked the Democratic Party and the DLC during the nomination process.

Very little in the attacks on the Republicans came from the mouths of Republicans itself. The fact that the DLC represents this will comes from the fact that its membership remains the same as long as the constitutency of its members keeps re-electing the DLC's members.

THos who attack the will of the democratic electorate are largely responsible for the loss this time to Bush. If you dont like it, Democratically select members for Congress, Governor, or whatever to office, and then they change the DLC, representing the voices of their own electorate.

What was clearly proven during this election was that "A House Divided cannot Stand".