They are getting the ideas ready. I guess they figure that is their role, though they appear to have assigned it to themselves. Some of their ideas are good, some....like the Iraq War which they supported... have devastated our country for a very long time.
I have said they control the party policy, and I have been told I was wrong. I was right, I am right. I intend to keep an eye on those ideas they are going to be coming up with.
Ford's campaign was anti-choice for women, and anti-rights for gays. He did not consider other Democrats his equal in the realm of Christianity. He said Dean might be asked to step down by him and others, not realizing they did not elect him.
If the ideas are good ones and avoid privatizing everything, avoid the word jihadism, one of their favorite words, and quit trying to worry us so much on Iran....there might some worthwhile stuff. They are going to set the policy. The DNC chairman was told not to do so, and not to speak out on policy, though a little creeps through now and then. Hard to keep good old Howard Dean quiet for too long.
From Politico:
Candidates Need Big Ideas, Not Big Money By Harold Ford and Al From.
Comment from me: Al From recently said they did not have to "bend knee to noisy party activists."Since there is no longer serious debate at our party conventions -- and our platforms are anything but binding -- the presidential primaries are the one time that we can have a serious debate within a political party among candidates who represent competing philosophies and ideas. The winners' philosophies and ideas define their parties. Think Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
..."So the next best course would be for those same leaders to demand an ideas primary starting right now -- a real debate over their party's and our country's direction. During the coming eight months, party leaders, including the potential candidates, should be encouraged to discuss their ideas, individually and collectively, at forums and debates across the country. Their message should be clear: Ideas matter most, and every voter in every state has a right to know what their next president will actually do.
..."As we know from personal experience, soliciting political dollars is time-consuming and hard work. But it's hardly the best way for candidates to prepare to lead and govern our nation. New challenges demand new thinking. The next eight months could define America's future for as much as the next eight years. Let the ideas primary begin.
And don't forget, Chairman Harold Ford of the DLC himself announced that the DLC would be the policy shop. This sounds like they are doing what they tried to do during the election for DNC chairman...
They wanted to make a two-tiered level of chairmanship, with one setting policy and keeping out the "noisy activists"...and the other one, the DNC trying to include those noisy passionate activists. They tried to do that before with Simon Rosenberg as the "face" of the party and Dean working behind the scenes out of view. It did not work. Dean has been quiet but not out of the picture.Here are Ford's words about setting policy.
Harold Ford says the DLC will be the "policy shop" for the 08 nominee."In a lengthy interview last week with a handful of reporters, Ford outlined his plans for the DLC -- ranging from its involvement in the 2008 presidential race to its work as the policy shop for the eventual Democratic nominee.
"This is the incubator," Ford said of the DLC, which was founded in 1985 in the wake of Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection. "If you look at the last ten great domestic policy ideas in the last 10-15 years ... 75 percent have come out of this organization."
No, Harold, this "noisy activist" wants to be part of the policy making now.
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