When will Democrats (DLC) Learn?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

I was "sampling" a little Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck the other day (for "know thy enemy" purposes only) and one thing suddenly became real clear to me and I think that it is something that DLC-oriented Democrats need to understand and that the rest of us desparately need to drill into their heads. It is the simple fact that no matter how much Democrats support and enable Bush/GOP, attack fellow Democrats for their perceived transgressions (i.e. MoveOn.Org), and otherwise try to pander to the various elements of the Republican party, Bush, Cheney, Rush, Sean, Glenn, etc. will ALWAYS find fault with ANY Democrat, will smear ANY Democrat that gets too "uppity" and will always lump ALL Democrats in with what they consider to be the more "extreme" (i.e. left-wing) elements of the party regardless of their "conservative" or "pro-corporate" bonifdes. On his radio show this past week for instance, Sean invented the new term, "MoveOn.Org Democrats" to smear the entire party. Basically, to MOST Republicans, ALL Democrats (with the possible exception of Joe Lieberman, although he's not technically a "Democrat" anymore) are EVIL, power/control hungry, and do nothing right and everything wrong. Keeping this in mind, it is simply perplexing to me why members of the DLC seem perpetually obsessed with trying to "mimic" and/or support Republicans when NOTHING they do will ever be good enough to win the hearts and minds of members of the Republican party and, frankly, I don't understand why anybody would actually want stoop to the level that one would have to stoop in order to claim their votes. At THAT point, you might as well change your party registration to Independent or simply cross over the aisle to become a member of the Republican party. The point that I'm trying to make is that, at least in the case of MOST Republicans, if you're a Democrat, you're essentially the "spawn of Satan" and they don't want to have anything to do with much less cast a vote for you and it doesn't do our party any good to try to imitate them in a vain attempt to win them over because it just ain't going to happen. And really, with their kind of poll numbers, it defies explanation as to why any of us aspire to be more like them or assume THEIR positions. Republicans are not trying to act more like Democrats, so why should we try to act more like Republicans when the polls on ANY given issue, with the possible exception of national security, favor the Democratic position NOT the Republican one? :shrug: