Reply #20: The DLC has a huge brand equity issue now. [View All]

[Pithy Cherub]

This year has been a colossal failure to increase the influence and scope of policy it has 'strategerized 'about for years. The actual strategy to get Democrats to coalesce around the DLC's policies and candidates has suffered tremendous losses with the most recent being the smackdown of their patron saint joementum. The DLC candidate's in Montana, California, Virginia, and Iowa to name the recent losses were replaced by progressive populists.

The failed DLC strategy was to stay the course with Bush's failed policy. Even that is taking a hit as the DC establishment realizes that the mix in Congress will change after the 2006 elections. That changes the political broken abacus the DLC had been using to prognosticate why they had such power. The DLC's public loss of face has undermined credibility with the so-called corporate media muttons who now looking hard at the Left & Liberal blogosphere as a new power source equal and getting stronger than the DLC. That causes fight or flight instincts to kick in on behalf of a DLC that sees everything being eviscerated by people who not only blog, but donate and vote.

Corporate donations are now matched with efficiency by the netroots so even the heralded money primary loses its cachet with the ease of a click of a mouse. The DLC is having what would be called a change management issue where they are fully expected to make the changes to happily embrace the new power structure - when they had believed they owned the Democratic remote.

You know what happens when people no longer have the remote...:popcorn: