"FORD: I want to do nothing more than ensure that progressive causes and
interests are advanced. I want nothing more –and I know you do as well-want
Democrats to win…We do nothing but help Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani when we argue essentially over semantics…
MOULITSAS: Will you stop going on FOXNews and attacking Harry Reid for abandoning the troops, betraying the troops? Because you just did that a couple of days ago…
FORD: Markos, in all fairness, your site has posted awful things about Jewish Americans…
MOULITSAS: That’s not true…
FORD: Your site has…now you have a site about…something about Cindy Sheehan, she uses it as a…she has a heavy presence there in talking about running against….
MOULITSAS: It’s called “democracy.” If you don’t like regular people, hundreds of thousands of people…you’re gonna have…
FORD: No, I love it…but you can’t be critical of us…
MOULITSAS: Of course…you’re not going to control hundreds of thousands of voices. Your organization has a dozen people, you CAN control that message. And you don’t need to attack Democrats."
This is a debate that is going on inside the party right now. Is the party going to continue to drift to the left towards the politics of Kuncinich and Sheehan, or is it going to return to the center where Bill Clinton was able to win. What are the core ideas of the party, and how much is the party willing to put aside some ideas to push forward others. I think that running on terms of pulling out of Iraq, is something that a lot of Americans feel good about. However, socialised medicine is still something that Americans don't trust yet. Can the party put aside its interest in socialised medicine to promote its Iraq strategy or must it cling to both?
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