Reply #11: That article is crap. And it doesn't answer the OP's question.

[Julien Sorel]

It claims throughout that the DLC "controls" the DNC, but doesn't explain how. I can show, quite easily, how the religious right influences Republican policy. I can point to policies, meetings, reports from journalists, opinion pieces, key appointments, elections -- all sorts of things that demonstrate the degree to which the Republicans are influenced (not controlled) by the Ralph Reed/Falwell/Robertson people. Where is the similar evidence for the DLC and the DNC?

I've pointed this out before, and no one has an answer:

And, with virtually no debate, the convention endorsed a platform that, on the vast majority of issues, deviated radically from the views of most party members. According to a New York Times survey of convention delegates, traditional liberalism remained the most popular ideological stance.

In fact, polls show convention delegates are far more liberal than rank and file Democrats, so the statement made by the author is false, probably intentionally so: contrary to what he claims, the platform Democrats adopted was in line with the average party member, but out of line with the average party activist. In other words, the activists are out of step with the broader party, not the DLC. It's people like the mendicant who wrote this article (and those who brainlessly swallow their Kool-aid) who are trying to pull the party in directions it doesn't want to go, not the DLC.