Reply #7: The problem is....

[Okieprogie]

The party needs to pick a path and stay with it and believe in it. I happen to be more of a centrist, but I think that the party is better off pushing and standing for more of what you call a "progressive" agenda than it is having a progressive agends and trying to pretend to be centrist.

Voters can smell B.S., and they know that Kerry was much more liberal than he claimed to be.

It's hard to run a party when there is a fundamental clash between what the party beleives, and the image it tries to present to the public. One reason I think the repbulicans have done so well over the last 12 years is because there is much less of a clash between what the rank and file believe and the image that the party portrays to voters.