The problem is really that both parties have drifted off-message and there are unrepresented potential voters available both to the left and to the right for a group like the DLC.
The GOP no longer represents the small-government, states' rights affirming, fiscally conservative values many historical Republicans want to support. I see the struggle among friends and family -- people who have always been Republican, who _do_ believe in business-friendly policy but do _not_ believe in federally mandated morality, in looting the environment, and in the foreign policy stance that the neo-con radicals and fundamentalist Christians running the country -- who _aren't_ interested in supporting a liberal agenda but don't want anymore of _this_. I don't know if these people would vote for a "Democrat" that agreed with them, or if they need to take back their own party, or if they're satisfied to just quietly stop voting. I can understand wanting to bank on them.
In any case, I do hope the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" is successful in taking charge of the party this time around.
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The GOP no longer represents the small-government, states' rights affirming, fiscally conservative values many historical Republicans want to support. I see the struggle among friends and family -- people who have always been Republican, who _do_ believe in business-friendly policy but do _not_ believe in federally mandated morality, in looting the environment, and in the foreign policy stance that the neo-con radicals and fundamentalist Christians running the country -- who _aren't_ interested in supporting a liberal agenda but don't want anymore of _this_. I don't know if these people would vote for a "Democrat" that agreed with them, or if they need to take back their own party, or if they're satisfied to just quietly stop voting. I can understand wanting to bank on them.
In any case, I do hope the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" is successful in taking charge of the party this time around.