A Party Inverted
Here's an article I missed. It was published in the New York Times on March 30 of this year. In this op-ed piece, former senator and presidential contender Bill Bradley offers his view on the state of the Democrats post 2004 election. It's an intriguing piece and mirrors some my own views in many respects. I recommend anyone with an interest in the future of the Democrats in presidential elections to read it and share your thoughts.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 5/10/2005
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Still harping on 2000? Give it a rest. It's like the favored team that's in a nailbiter and loses by a point due to a debateable call by an official in the final seconds. Hello: You shouldn't have been that close in the first place.
Fix the problems. Make the party stronger. Win the next one. Don't keep fighting old battles and nursing old grudges.
For awhile I've thought the Dems have been holding out for a Jack Kennedy-type presidential candidate.
Kennedy was so slick he finessed the race issue in a way that he got more votes from Blacks and Southern "Whites" than the previous Dem nominee.
But the media and country was more splintered then. Kennedy could rely on his votes on key Civil Rights amendments to be his message to segregationists and his personal phone call to Corretta Scott King to be his message to Blacks.
John Kerry attempted to finesse the Iraq War. It didn't work.
I don't want the Dems to imitate the GOP and have a bunch of foundations marching in lockstep. There should be room for ideological diversity.
Don't nurse old grudges?
Hello? The GOP has milked Roe v. Wade, desegregation and the anti-Vietnam War movement for decades.
I'm for policy that looks ahead rather than nurtures a grudge. Blagojevich's campaign on the gender gap in pay is a prime example of the gov't nurturing a grudge without doing an iota about the actual issue.
But to ignore the GOP's long-standing grudge nurturing seems a tad one-sided.
There's a big difference between:
a) milking old issues so long as they continue to work for you
and
b) grousing amongst yourselves how "we got robbed" which distracts from real fixable problems.
I see the Repubs doing a lot of the former. I see too many Demos doing a lot of the latter. (And I admit I see too many Liberts doing nothing useful at all.)
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