DLC's Will Marshall Blames PROGRESSIVES for Kerry's Election "Loss"by Dawn Mueller
Marshall calls progressive Democrats "anti-American"
The DLC held a forum to do a post-mortem on the election:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6453647/
Sounds like some have awakened to the fact that the Democratic leadership needs to get down in the trenches with us common folk, and do some party-building.
However, Will Marshall specifically pins the blame on the "Michael Moore crowd." He is quoted as saying, "We've got to repudiate the most strident and insulting anti-American voices out there, sometimes on our party's left." The article reminds the reader of Evan Bayh's comment that the Democratic Party is in danger of being taken over by the far left, referring to Howard Dean's rise.
I respectfully suggest that Mr. Marshall be informed that I just spent three years of my life busting my behind to get the Democratic nominee elected. If he thinks that you and I are "strident and insulting anti-American voices," and that we should be "repudiated" because we oppose/d a war in which over a thousand of our men and women have died; tens of thousands have been injured; and heaven knows how many civilians have been killed, maimed or rendered destitute by our actions...
...then my reply to Mr. Marshall is that I do not find him to be the unifying voice of the Democratic Party. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and spouses should not be "repudiated" for trying to prevent the death of their loved ones on the sands of Iraq, and the endless draining of our pocketbooks.
I am shocked that, after all of the Herculean grassroots efforts of everyday citizens to make the Democratic party DEMOCRATIC enough bring in the BIGGEST haul of voters a Democratic presidential candidate has ever won, that a member of the DLC would treat us this way. If Mr. Marshall has been properly quoted, I believe he owes us a big apology.
I am in favor of Howard Dean for DNC Chair. Democrats need leaders who are intelligent, principled, care about us and have the ability to sit down with us over a meal of Hamburger Helper, without spitting in our faces.
The DLC website is http://www.ndol.org. There is a link to the CSPAN video of the forum. Will Marshall is the president of the so-called "Progressive Policy Institute," an arm of the DLC. You might drop him a line and invite him to share a dinner of Ramen noodles with you - use the online form, or give him a call at (202)547-0001.
Dawn M. Mueller
In Iowa News, Gov. Vilsack appears to be considering the top spot at the DNC, too.
