Lieberman: Dems won't win with slide to left [View all]

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Source: The Hill

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) argues the Democratic Party will not win elections if the liberal wing of the party takes over.

"Here is my fear about the future of the Democratic Party. In a way, relatively speaking, Hillary Clinton was representative of ... center-left of the Democratic Party, not the pure left," Lieberman said in a radio interview with John Catsimatidis on Sunday.

"Now I think there will be a real attempt by the left-left of the Democratic Party to take over the party, and I don't think that's the way to go to make it an effective party," he continued.

"It's certainly not the party that I got drawn to ... it's not the party that I worked so hard for when Bill Clinton was president and it's not going to be a winning party."

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"To me, both parties better watch out not to go back to the extremes — left and right — and not working with each other. I think that the public really wants both parties to get together, work together and solve some of the problems of our country, make the future better," he said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/308652-former-dem-senator-democratic-party-will-not-be-a-winning-party

Sadly, a fair number of centrist Democrats would side with Lieberman on this. Also, go back to extremes? What is so extreme about the left wing of the Democratic Party? It has been shown that the general public actual likes the ideas and policies of those on the left when polled about policy and not party.