Politics: Bayh in 2008?
While I'm very skeptical of the DLC and its "let's let gays, women, and minorities fend for themselves and move to the center" rhetoric, there might be something really special about the Evan Bayh movement.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
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how's that?
www.americansforbayh.com
how's what?
I'm having a really hard time on any of the Bayh or DLC related websites finding anything about positions on gay rights, abortion, or minority rights. Am I just not looking in the right place, or is the DLC willfully avoiding these topics? There's a lot I read on these sites that seem brilliant, but I'm wondering if they're sweeping these under the table to focus on more relevant issues, or if they're simply abandoning them.
www.ndol.org
click about us and then the new dem credo.
I'm not sure of my gut feeling of the whole mission statement - the NDOL/DLC credo is probably the only way the Democrats are ever going to win the presidency anytime soon, but something about it rings Republican-light to me. I mean Clinton's eight years were great, but DOMA and don't ask don't tell make me questions his character a bit, so I am suspicious.
The one thing that rings true to this Catholic-socialist leaning boy is making abortion safe, legal, and rare. I do think their mission statement dodges the whole affirmative action issue and doesn't address it adequately, but hey - if the NDOL really wants to help fix public education, then this would go to much greater lengths than any affirmative action program.
Gut reaction - NDOL/DLC/Bayh would be a 100% improvement over our neocon/Bush/Rove nightmare.
~Steve (ever postponing studying for politics)
steve, bayh would be an improvement over bush and rove for sure
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