Here are the rats that are fucking Democrats

[JDPriestly]

104. The candidate in Kentucky ran to the right of Obama.

As many DUers have pointed out, in some states, like Colorado, voters voted in favor of progressive policies but against DLC, Third Way Democratic candidates.

Voters like progressive policies. We don't offer enough progressive candidates who really believe in progressive values.

It's about values. Policies grow out of values. Too many of our candidates are not value-oriented but rather are merely party oriented. Some of them want to win something to prove something personal. Some of them are, as Eisenhower said of the French at the beginning of the North African campaign in WWII, just about "ME."

Democrats are unclear about the economic values they hold. That really hurts our party.

We need at this time Democrats who will run for office not only on social issues although those are important but on truly progressive economic values. We need to explain to the American voters why it is that the traditional Democratic values of "we are in this together and need to work together to make an economy that puts us all to work and builds better lives for everyone" work and why we will, as a party stand for them. So far, too many of our candidates are willing to negotiate or compromise those values.

And that is an important difference. A politician can compromise when it comes to specific programs or policies, but must stand firm on values and relate the rationale behind the compromise to the strong values of our party that put working people first.