More nonsense from the DLC

Over at The Left Coaster Marie has another example of how out of touch the Democratic Leadership Council is with the Democratic Party Base. Earth to Hillary, forget 2008.

Hunter at Dkos doesn't think much of the DLC either. He gives us three reasons why the DLC is detested by "real" Democrats.

• The more corporate-tailored elements of the DLC agenda are frequently at odds with Democratic "heartland" interests.


• The DLC "framing" of candidates and issues is so forcefully homogenized as to render those candidates and issues politically and morally translucent.


• The DLC has a remarkable track record of losing.

It's pretty amazing that an orginzation with "a remarkable track record of losing" is trying to tell Democrats what they need to do to win.

And Digby chimes in:

What this points up is the fact that the DLC badly misunderstands the reasons why the grassroots reject their leadership. It's only partially to do with policy and has almost nothing to do with ideology. It's about tactics and strategy. We see their split-the-difference "third way" approach -- particularly their rhetoric --- as a form of appeasement that may have made sense in a time of shared power but that is now self-defeating and dangerous.This is particularly so in light of the demonstrable ruthlessness of the opposition and their willingness to go far beyond any normal political limits.

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