Reply #17: ditch the limousine liberals

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the real problem is the "cultural liberals", or limousine liberals, who adopt cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage as their priority, while downgrading economic issues or even suppressing them. As long as the apparent face of the Democratic party is these people, the people of the South who used to make up the New Deal coalition will never support us.Why can't we reemphasize the economic issues, and at least drive a wedge between these fat cat corporatist Republicans and their so-called base, who are in fact economically liberal in every poll I've seen? Jeez, remember Clinton's gays in the military fiasco, whiched helped usher in Nazi Newt and the Republican clowns of 1994? I'm not saying drop the cultural issues; far from it, but we need to prioritize economic issues to have any chance in the South.