Hillary should forget about reviving the DLC playbook- the RW will *never* accept her

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32. The fact is the position on guns you support

Is one that the GOP supports whole heartedly. Now you've defined left to mean positions taken by the Republican party. That is yet another reason why such arguments about left and centrist are empty statements. You define the pro-gun position as leftist because you believe it, and anyone who disagrees with you is other than leftist. Everyone does the same thing with the issues they care about. Challenge from the left means nothing. The question is what are the core issues you want to see candidates address, and what are you committed to working for. In your case we know what that is, and Bernie ain't on your team. I'm guessing you know the power of the gun lobby means that it doesn't matter who is president, capital trumps democracy. In that sense you are right.

I didn't say a thing about gun owners. I know plenty of guns owners. This constant conflation of pro-gun proliferation policy and "gun owners" is a standard, fatuous talking point. You forget that the success of your lobbying efforts means all of us know gun owners, yet few bear any resemblance to the gun evangelists one encounters online.

Pro-gun Democrats are always the most conservative Dems, are they not? They come from red states where if they dared to espouse a view not sanctioned by the NRA, they would be destroyed.