Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Shane Taylor wrote:
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> >I was at a local meeting of people organizing for Dean this weekend.
> >Transforming the party was an explicit and widely shared goal.
>
> I keep hearing this, but how's Dean a transformative vehicle. Barry
> Goldwater was a serious - wacko, if you prefer - movement
> conservative in 1964. He stood for stuff that was deeply out of
> fashion. Dean stands for...what exactly? How can you transform a
> party without an agenda?
>
If the DP is ever "transformed," which I doubt, but if -- it will be by someone who only discovers after the election that he/she needs to transform the party. Roosevelt in 1932 campaigned on balancing the budget or something like that.
Carrol