Wednesday, August 03, 2005

A letter to Hillary

Dan Carol writes a letter to Hillary - "the presumptive 2008 Democratic nominee and like it or not, you are a permanent LIBERAL ICON" - with some suggestions.
...stop trying to figure out how to be in the middle of the old political spectrum, and instead consider becoming an uncompromising vanguard for defining dynamic change in the post-DLC era. Re-read David Sirota’s Da Vinci code, the latest in a long line of useful clarion calls from Jim Hightower and others for a new grassroots politics of passion that actually wins in red states. Remember the unlikely political success of a Paul Wellstone, or a Ronald Reagan and even a Ross Perot who was after all, key to your husband’s 1992 election. And should you choose to embrace and define the emerging parameters of a "new middle," you will no doubt find some really strange bedfellows waiting there, like your new health care buddy Newt Gingrich (I loved that one by the way). ...

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