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THE BULL MOOSE: The New Democrats Get It
February 23, 2003
Bruce Reed of the Democratic Leadership Council has sketched a road-map by which the Democratic Party might reclaim the White House in 2004. But that question is, will the Democrats follow it?
Writing in the Democratic Leadership Council's Blueprint magazine, Al From and Bruce Reed offer an agenda a Democratic candidate for president can advocate for effectively recapturing the White House in 2004. The Moose can't help but notice how strikingly similar most of the ten-item agenda is to that supported by Reform Conservatives.
Reed and From include in that agenda making America safe through more support for law enforcement, restoring economic growth through fiscal responsibility in the federal government, corporate responsibility, asking Americans to serve their country, family-friendly tax reform, education reform that demands competence from educators for better pay, strict enforcement of child responsibility (including child support from absentee parents) from parents, and energy reform. The Moose can't help but see the New Democrats gearing up to attempt to win another election by shamelessly pilfering Conservative Reform ideas.
The Moose can already hear some conventional conservatives shouting that the Clinton Democrats didn't really steal those ideas; they paid lip service to them while backing little of the substance of the ideas in policy. The Moose also knows that in politics, perception is reality, and when the other side has conceded the debate over ideas, our ideas have won the day. Conservative Reform ideas have vanquished the old debate between old style liberal ideas and the backward negative incremental compromise agenda of the country-club Republicans. The Third Way is the Conservative Reform agenda. The Democrats now realize this political reality. The Moose asks you to enjoy this victory for our ideas, and press forward. The Moose, truly is, loose.
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