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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There were a few differences between Bush and Gore(Gore was doing his best to minimize them, a tactic I'd think we ALL should be admitting needs to be abandoned by our party forever).
Why are you so afraid of changing this party for the better? Why NOT make this a party of the 99% There really isn't such a thing as a "pro-business Democratic" voter anymore, and being a "pro-business Democrat" always pretty much just meant being an Eisenhower Republican.
Centrism means defeat. Kerry found that out again in 2004, when he failed because he made the stupid decision of trying to run as a pro-Iraq War candidate at a time when the country was turning away from the war. Kerry knew, and all his supporters knew, that "we can do it better" couldn't work on that issue(anymore than "we can do it better" on Vietnam could have worked for Democrats in 1972, which is why Scoop Jackson would have lost 49 states against Nixon too.)