Reply #15: A magazine, a couple of blogs and Howard Dean spew hate at the DLC.

[greenohio]

Mostly because the DLC does wield considerable influence in the party and we didn't gain the White House this round. If we had on Nov 2nd, few would be saying "I hate Kerry and his DLC buddies." The DLC is credited by Clinton himself as the reason we have won 2 pres elections since the 70s. They are NOT moderate on social issues as many claim. Kerry has stood firm voting against DOMA, late-term abortion ban, and the fetus-is-really-a-person acts. Dean (who DID support NAFTA, a DLC policy) needed something to campaign on so he called Kerry and CO Republican-lite and that congressional Dems "went along for a ride." Dean has since moved on from this language, BECAUSE THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER, but his supporters have not.