I support the DLC, the DLC are members of the Democratic Party as well [View All]

[...of J.Temperance]

I fully support the DLC, and I'd like some people to recognize and understand that us DLCer's are members of the Democratric Party as well.

It's imperative in this election year that ALL who call themselves Democrats pull together for the greater good. We ALL want the SAME thing, whether we're DLC Centrist Democrats or Liberal Democrats... we ALL want OUR party returning to power, we ALL in 2008 want a Democratic President in the White House, we ALL want an end to the politics of division, we ALL want a better future for ALL of our people.

The ONLY way that we can achieve these objectives, is if we pull together and realize our strengths and concentrate on the issues that we can agree on and unite around those issues.

People need to understand that one cannot or should not agree on 100% of the issues, that if one agrees with someone on 80% of the issues then that should be good enough, that agreeing on 80% of the issues is better than having someone whom one disagrees with on 100% of the issues.

People need to understand that issuing litmus tests and purity tests ISN'T the way to advance our party forward, and that being willing to cut off one's nose to despite one's face doesn't exactly help us as a party and that it doesn't help us on our road to regaining power in Washington DC.

The Democratic Party....MY party, YOUR party, OUR party....is a big tent, and the tent is big enough to accomodate ALL of our individual AND collective views.

In order to advance our party forward, sometimes people need to realize that compromises have to take place, and that people like me a PROUD DLCer have to meet the more Liberal section of our party at some halfway point....and that the more Liberal section of our party have to meet us DLCer's at some halfway point....that we have to offer each other olive branches and show each other respect....and by doing these things we can make it easier to advance forward as a party.

In this election year, there are going to be people who are going to attempt to undermine our cause, attempt to demoralize us as a party, attempt to dampen our spirit....I appeal to people NOT to listen or pay attention to these people, ignore them and continue to move forward toward OUR common goal, OUR common aim....the return of the Democratic Party to power.

The DLC needs the Liberal section of the Democratic Party and the Liberal section of the Democratic Party needs the DLC, we are ALL Democrats and I would hope that we can do our best to attempt to both understand AND respect each other more and that we can attempt to utilize one anothers talents for the good of OUR party.


On Edit: Dammit spelling error