Republicans say, "We OWN the world." Democrats say, "We ARE the world."

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3. Any national party MUST have a somewhat broad tent, but the main principles are universal.

If we demonize centrists, that is not a good plan. I'm talking broad principles, not sheer purity.

True centrists are NOT EVEN CLOSE to today's RADICAL REPUKES who are WAY off the right wing rails. I would rather have someone like Crist in FL as a Dem than a RePUKE.

Bill and Hillary are HATED by the right wing and have been attacked by them relentlessly for years. And while their hands are not entirely clean, they are FAR more progressive than today's ReSCUMlicans.

Warren has endorsed Hillary and won't run in 2016 so forget that. Bernie Sanders can not win. We can't have a progressive split. Hillary is the best person who can WIN. Not ideal, but some practicality MUST prevail. If you don't WIN elections, you don't have POWER, and political POWER is the ONLY goal in an election. It is THE objective.

Our PRINCIPLES are better. We do need to articulate them well. Our message about the R's is "THEY ARE BANKRUPT OF IDEAS, BANKRUPT ON THE ISSUES, AND MORALLY BANKRUPT. They are the party of SHUTDOWN and they have the WORST House of Reps record because of DOING NOTHING in HISTORY." We have a MOUNTAIN OF AMMUNITION for 2014. We just have to FRAME it and USE it.