Just saw an article on that. Sounds like the same old democratic song and dance to me. :dis: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=407844&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
If Dean becomes DNC Chairman, you can forget about the Democratic Party returning to the center. Dean wants a Gingrich-style revolution in his party, patterned after the GOP's "Contract with America" that helped them take back Congress in 1994, believing that, if the Democrats stake out their own clear agenda and ideas, rather than simply trying to be GOP-Lite, than that will pay dividends for them. Certainly, the Democrats need to come to the table with their own vision for America, instead of just trying to be slightly left of the GOP. The problem is that their current vision has been completely rejected by the voters, and there are too many special interests and sacred cows that they desperately cling to, knowing that these things are costing them elections. Example; Dean spoke not too long ago in an interview with Alan Colmes that the Democrats need to embrace the many good pro-life people in the party. When asked did that mean the Democrats should change or moderate their stance on abortion, he quickly replied, "Absolutely not." Ummmm, let me get this straight, Dean wants to embrace pro-life Democrats, but has no plans to back off the party's current position on the matter (totally legal, completely unrestricted abortion-on-demand). Just how will they accomplish this? The same with taxes. The same with national security and terrorism issues. The same with entitlement programs and size of govt. The list goes on and on and on. Remember, for all the ranting and raving of the Hard Left, President Bush is really not that conservative. To take back the White House, the GOP went very moderate and abandoned many of it's core ideas from two decades ago; no longer is the GOP the party that wants to abolish the IRS and the Dept. of Education, and the party for making English the official language of the U.S. Just like the GOP did, the Democrats are going to have to give up some of their current core ideology and distance themselves from certain Hard Left groups and orgs. How much, I don't know. A welcome start would be for the party to re-visit the legacy of FDR, Truman, and Kennedy, and return to a position of a strong, aggressive national defense/national security policy and to completely push away the radical anti-war groups and interests and the people who are against strong anti-terrorism measures, you know, the ones who compare Camp X-Ray at Gitmo to Auschwitz. Those kind of people need to be silenced or gotten rid of for the Democrats to once again appeal to mainstream American voters.
Like Ronald Reagan once said, he didn't leave the Democratic party, they left him. Anyway it was something like that he said.
