Reply #16: There still seems to be a distinction in regard to this past election

[quiet.american]

First, let me say, I'm in complete agreement the DLC is absolutely useless in regard to winning campaigns for us. They never seem to have heard of the warning: "past performance is no indication of future results."

They skip right past Al Gore's "loss" in 2000 and with a single focus always point to Clinton's win in '92.

However, like a rock band that splits up and then only one of the original members goes on to have a stellar solo career, (and it then becomes obvious that that particular member WAS the rock band), so I feel about Clinton and the DLC. They've been nothing without him.

In regard to your point though, the DLC's counsel to Kerry appears to have been crafted without Clinton's input --

In June 2003, barely three months after the invasion of Iraq and six months before the Democratic presidential primaries, Al From, the DLC's founder and CEO, and Bruce Reed, President Clinton's former domestic policy adviser and the organization's president, laid out their strategy for winning back the White House in the DLC's Blueprint Magazine. The message: The Democratic candidate should follow the strategy of former president Bill Clinton and "seize the vital center," and "not... veer left." From and Reed make no mention of Bush's foreign policy initiatives.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0513-03.htm

Although, in typical DLC fashion, they are perennially stuck in the past, reaching back to what worked in 1992 and attempting to apply it to what's happening now not only in a new decade, but in a new century!

The blame for the DLC policies rests squarely on the shoulders of Messrs. Al From and Bruce Reed -- the bloated and overly-cautious masters of disaster, and the reason I say this is because Al Gore steered fairly well clear of Clinton during his run for the presidency -- look what happened -- and Kerry started calling too late in the day --

From the comments Clinton has made, it truly appears he would have run a much more pro-active, bracing race than Sen. Kerry did.