Just a little open letter to our friends in the DLC here.
Ladies and fellas, I hate to bring you down from your pedestals of centrist self-importance, but somebody needed to let you know that you are now in what I like to call a real bind. On the one hand, you've got your old friends in the insurance lobby, keeping your palms nice and slick for lo all these many years. And on the other, you've got the people who do the actual lining up and voting that keeps you in a job.
Now you may be thinking to yourself, "Those folks are Reagan Democrats, they'll vote for me but they aren't interested in any big government program." I got news for you... before Reagan, they, or their parents, were New Deal Democrats. Your anti-government pro-business voters are already voting against you, for Republicans. You're not going to win those votes even if you paint yourselves red and endorse Ghengis Palin for President.
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