Dean: "They can tag us with liberal or whatever they want..." [View All]

[madfloridian]

From an excellent recent interview here are some statements about not worrying so much about labels. We need to worry more about setting the agenda of going forward.

In a discussion of the tendencies to move right, Dean gave the following answer about just moving "straight forward."

SNIP..."HD: You know, I don’t think we should dwell on that., I really think we should , instead of worrying about that there’s some other groups that want to move to the right, I think we ought to keep going straight forward. I think we are the moderate folks. They can tag us with the word “liberal” or whatever they want, and there’s nothing wrong with “liberal”, believe me, but I don't think we should pay attention to that any more. That’s one thing I would do differently if I were ,if I had to go back and do it over again, I wouldn’t bother with the DLC or the retrograde(s), their forces in the party, I would try to move forward on our own agenda. You get sucked in to letting somebody else frame the agenda, that’s a problem. We shouldn’t let the Republicans do it nor should we let the DLC or anybody else like that do it."