Public Service Announcement: There no longer are "DLCers"

[Algernon Moncrieff]

70. You are wrong at several levels

Marx was a philosopher. He wrote a philosophy which many claimed to believe, but nobody actually practiced in anything larger than a commune or a Kibbutz. Marxism-Leninism and Maoism are adaptations of Marx that were actually practiced.

The DLC was basically an organization of people that believed that the Democratc Party had to field more business-friendly candidates and try to find common ground with the GOP during the Reagan/Bush I era.

I find it laughable that so many here are looking to root out fellow Democrats who don't meet some progressive purity test rather than to go fight against Republicans. The DLC is a dead organization. The people on the list below are not members of a dead organization. They are the Senate Republicans up for election on 2016.

Richard Shelby
Lisa Murkowski
John McCain
John Boozman
Marco Rubio
Johnny Isakson
Mike Crapo
Mark Kirk
Dan Coats
Chuck Grassley
Jerry Moran
Rand Paul
David Vitter
Roy Blunt
Kelly Ayotte
Richard Burr
John Hoeven
Rob Portman
James Lankford
Pat Toomey
Tim Scott
John Thune
Mike Lee
Ron Johnson

To me, this whole talk of "purges", "ignoring third wayers extreme prejudice", labeling people as DLCers when the DLC doesn't even exist anymore -- it's all rot. It's a dog chasing it's own tail. We have to keep a Democrat in the White House (which we'll figure out in the primaries), and we have to defeat at least 5 of the Senators on that list.