Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No “Center”

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

84. Did you get dragged through a wormhole from another universe?

Gore most certainly did NOT run as a liberal in this universe. The whole reason Nader got ANY real votes was that there was a serious vacuum on the left side of the race. The lefties begged him to throw a single solitary bone to the left to shore up his base support, and he refused. He ran centrist his whole campaign, and lost because he was courting the mythical 'center'.

Lieberman was just another trick in the bag to 'appeal to the center', that failed miserably.

And Obama ran to the left of Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. He just didn't deliver on most of what people actually wanted once he got in office. He put some bandages over the gaping wound of the economy, then went after health insurance reform. So instead of a recovered middle class, we've got more people in poverty, a smaller middle class, almost all of the recovered wealth in the 'recovery' flowing to the rich people, and at least some people who get health insurance who didn't before.

Supposedly I'm eligible for Medicaid now (not that the Medicaid office has done anything more with my paperwork), but I'd rather have had a job, and preferably not one that will likely pay half or less of the one I lost.