‘I Caution Some in Our Party’

I DON'T FEEL THAT THERE ARE NOT ANY ELECTABLE CANDIDATES THERE, ANY THAT HAS A CLEAR PICTURE. FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO BECOME VICTORIOUS THERE HAS TO BE A CANDIDATE WHO WILL APPEAL TO THE "GOOD OLD BOYS". HILLARY, OBAMA WILL NOT CUT IT.....THIS IS REALITY.....I WAS HOPING THAT SAM NUNN OF GEORGIA WOULD THROW HIS HAT IN THE RING....

I wish Harold Ford Jr. would of fleshed out the DLC's iraq position more. Especially, with chatter from the con pundits thinking the suprression of violence is somehow indictative of a pyrrhic victory. I only have two questions for them: Have we won yet? and what do we do now? I was for the war and then the sheer mismanagement cause me to turn against it. I believed in 2004 and 2006 that Bush did not deserve a redo, after 400 billion dollars and 2800 dead, no redo. Yes, I still believe that Iraq is far from a Pyrrhic victory being that we can't reinforce the lid suppressing violence unless we extend our troops to 21 months and start a draft and the US becomes energy independent. .

hey now

I LOVED Harold Ford, Jr., until he showed himself to be a smarmy little turncoat weasel during the Don Imus debacle. He'd go on the Imus show, act all self-deprecating, end the segment with "I love you" to Don, and then callously turned his back on his so-called friend the moment the chips were down. I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog. Don't know how he stands so straight without a spine.

If you're a Democrat it's got to be disheartening to see the extreme left steering the party onto the rocks of political disaster. It's way too easy for them to gather in their "progressive" conclaves and believe their out-of-mainstream thinking is suddenly mainstream.

If they dismiss the DLC, it will be at their own peril.

As a Republican, I could care less whether they wake up and realize that their myopic view of the world will ultimately result in their demise.

As long as they keep sipping the Kool-Aid Republicans still have a chance to be revelant in the current political climate.

Who would have thought that possible given the state of things in recent years? Not me...

Thanks, Kos.

Mr. Ford is a man who supported the war (still does), the bankruptcy bill, gay marriage amendment to the constitution, Bush, etc. He told a group at the University of Memphis that he loves this president. He is a republican calling himself a Democrat. I voted for him against Corker because he was the lesser of two evils, in order to give Dems a larger number in the senate. He cares about money above all like the rest of his family. In my oppinion he is irrelevant as is the DLC.

Harold Ford's DLC is extremely close to irrelevance. its policies have failed. It was once ascendant, but now is stuck in the mud due to its history of complete acquiescence to the Republicans and Bush. Democrats can't continue to knuckle under to what Ford calls centrist and what we know to be right-wing. Ford continues to attempt to quash the people-powered politics of DailyKos and Howard Dean for one purpose: keep K street lobbyists paying the bills. Yawn. We're done with you Harold. Get out of the way or you'll get run over.

Remind me; who's the DLC again? Aren't they that group that...how can I put this....Oh I know;what if they had a Democrat Presidential debate and nobody came? I remember now. All the Dems were at the Daily Kos shindig. Or was it Moveontothelooneyleft.org? That's quite the gig you've got there, Harold. You're running a group that nobody listens to. If I were young Mr. Ford, I'd find a better use for my time. He'd be better off using his time to try and keep his relatives ouy of jail. If you ask me.

The DLC? Isn't that the group...How can I say this? What if they had a debate and nobody came? Yeah. Nobody came because they were all at the Daily Kos shindig. Or was it Moveontotheleft.org? One of those lunatic groups. It must be nice to head up a group that,basically,sits around a table and talks to nobody. If I were to advize young Mr.Ford, I'd say his time would be better spent trying to keep his relatives outta jail instead of peeing in the wind to no audience.

"I caution anybody who continues to talk about the past on this issue?" Mr. Ford, are you out of your freaking mind? Surely you cannot believe that the way we got into our current predicament is of no relevance to figuring out how to get out of it...?

"I caution anybody who continues to talk about the past on this issue?" Mr. Ford, are you out of your freaking mind?

Ford is spot on. The majority of Americans are in the center and actually make fun of the fringeys. The goals he cites for national security, healthcare, entitlement reforms, and taxes really are the ticket for victory in '08 -- if the Demo-lefties will listen. Why else do you suppose Hillary has a 2:1 lead over Obama? The longer the party refuses to unite around the next nominee, the greater the Republicans' chances will be. After all, Democratic in-fighting has happened before, hasn't it.

Ford is right on. The vast majority of Americans are in the center. The goals he is setting regarding national security, health care, entitlement reforms, and taxes -- if listened to by the Demo-lefties -- may very well be enough to win the next election. But then again, the fringeys on both the left and right do tend to "eat their young."

During the last 7 years, the Republican neo-cons, with the help of the religious right have taken us into an unecessary, disastious war, squandered our national treasure, desimated our armys, shredded our rights under the constitution and made us the most hated and/or laughed at country in the world. They have sold our government to the highest bidder. They have allowed cheap labor into this country to fuel the profits of these bidders. These bidders have, in turn, shipped millions of jobs out of this country, looted pension funds and made sure that the top 1% of the richest people in this country control 90% of the wealth. All this with the blessing of the congress, both Republicans and Democrats, whom they bought and put in office. Now Mr. Ford is trying to tell us that if we (Democrats) want to win,
we must court and compromise with the very people who have nearly distroyed this country in the first place. I for one am tired of compromise. If you want to cure a cancer it must be cut out completely or it will grow back. So it is with the political structure that now runs our government. And, we will never get rid of the cancer of corruption that now runs Washington unless we refuse to nominate or elect politicians who accept money from and pass laws for the corporate elite. Compromise is just another word for more of the same.

The heart and soul of the Democratic Party cannot allowed to be derailed by by Ford or Hillary who sell out the truth for electability--if the American people are so easily positioned to accept lies and loss of freedoms so cherished and founded in the Constitution, then they can have Bush Chenney--Rudi Mitt or God fearin Huckabee. Pretending to value freedom and protecting it through vigilance against the right are polar opposites. It seems to be our legacy that Halburton will continue to rule all politics. The only escape is reject Ford Hillary and the right.

By cerrulis standards. No one is acceptable. Remeber when the Indians exploded an Atomic Bomb? Everyone here was horrified. The Indian response "We promised we would to win the election. How can we NOT keep our promise?" The State Department response: "No American polititican keeps election promises, why should we think the Indians would be different?"

No, the Pseudo-Dems don't have to demonstrate any of those things. What they DO need to demonstrate is a. A backbone, and b. trustworthiness to keep the promises they make. Anything less in unacceptable.