DLC's Will Marshall Blames PROGRESSIVES for Kerry's Election “Loss”

The DLC held a forum to do a post-mortem on the election:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6453647/



Sounds
like some have awakened to the fact that the Democratic leadership
needs to get down in the trenches with us common folk, and do some
party-building.



However, Will Marshall specifically pins the blame on the “Michael Moore crowd.”  He is quoted as saying, “We've got to repudiate the most strident and insulting anti-American voices out there, sometimes on our party's left.” 
The article reminds the reader of Evan Bayh's comment that the
Democratic Party is in danger of being taken over by the far left,
referring to Howard Dean's rise.



I
respectfully suggest that Mr. Marshall be informed that I just spent
three years of my life busting my behind to get the Democratic nominee
elected.  If he thinks that you and I are “strident and insulting
anti-American voices,” and that we should be “repudiated” because we
oppose/d a war in which over a thousand of our men and women have died;
tens of thousands have been injured; and heaven knows how many
civilians have been killed, maimed or rendered destitute by our
actions…



…then
my reply to Mr. Marshall is that I do not find him to be the unifying
voice of the Democratic Party.  Mothers, fathers, sisters,
brothers and spouses should not be “repudiated” for trying to prevent
the death of their loved ones on the sands of Iraq, and the endless
draining of our pocketbooks.



I am
shocked that, after all of the Herculean grassroots efforts of everyday
citizens to make the Democratic party DEMOCRATIC enough bring in the
BIGGEST haul of voters a Democratic presidential candidate has ever
won, that a member of the DLC would treat us this way.  If Mr.
Marshall has been properly quoted, I believe he owes us a big apology.



I am in favor of Howard Dean for DNC Chair. 
Democrats need leaders who are intelligent, principled, care about us
and have the ability to sit down with us over a meal of Hamburger
Helper, without spitting in our faces.



The DLC website is http://www.ndol.org. 
There is a link to the CSPAN video of the forum.  Will Marshall is
the president of the so-called “Progressive Policy Institute,” an arm
of the DLC.  You might drop him a line and invite him to share a
dinner of Ramen noodles with you – use the online form, or give him a
call at (202)547-0001.



Dawn M. Mueller