Reply #15: Very good observation - I agree. We're fighting for the soul of the party

[Tinoire]

right now which is why the DLC is in an absolute frenzy. They already feel it all slipping out of their control and are going to spend the next 4 years trying to pawn off supporters of their conservative imperialist agenda as progressives. They're not stupid. They know pro-war, pro-imperialism, DLCers are out so they are going to be sneakier about it this time around.

Recently they brought one of Ralph Reed's right hand men on board (Marhsall Wittman) and made him one of the few official spokesmen for the DLC and the PPI. What this person helped the Christian Coalition do in the Republican Party is what the DLC is planning on doing to the Democratic Party- a total redefinition of values. It's no coincidence that shortly after Marshall Wittman's "re-awoke as a Democrat", Hillary Clinton, DLC, is already spouting off a bunch of garbage urging the use of faith-based initiatives.

We are fighting for who will own the right to redefine those values, since it's pretty obvious the current Democratic Party establishment has no interest in representing the values of the people it's allegedly representing. Our party is at a cross-roads. Who will be its soul? The people on the ground with our antiwar voices or the establishment Dems with their corporate and establishment ties?

You see it all over. You see it even a board like this. The Democratic Party just got its ass WHOOPED by the Republicans for its stupid games and already you see campaign operatives & die-hard supporters spinning their wheels trying to pump certain aspirants to the Presidency up instead of paying attention to any issues affecting us or our reaction to them.

That right there is one reason I want Dean as DNC chair (even though I think it's a waste of his enormous talents but at the same time hope that he will become DNC chair and run for President in 2006. Dean will be more honest than the establishment, corporation-serving Dems they're trying to foist in that position and I know he'll pay more attention to what we want instead of trying to tell us what we need.

Until 2007, the Democratic Party needs to keep all its knights, white horses and shining armor in the stables while we work out the issues and our collective values. All the propaganda being dumped on us is sickening and a total turn-off.

Very good post Madfloridian. Glad to see your "breath of fresh air" important post.