The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party

Fellow New York blogger, Carl, posted recently about the current struggle for control of the Democratic Party on his blog Simply Left Behind. He incorrectly, in my opinion, claimed the struggle was between the Dean Wing and the (Hillary) Clinton Wing and stated it was a problem that Dean had won the DNC Chairmanship. He plans to expand on his post in the future, and has yet to explain why Dean was a bad choice.

I felt the need to respond to what he did write so far:

I am eagerly awaiting your reasoning as to why Dean was a bad choice for DNC chair, in my opinion he was the best possible choice. His 50-State Strategy will bring our party back to life, and his influence inspired hundreds of new Democrats across the country that will be essential if this party is to have any future. If the DSCC and the DCCC would just follow his lead we would be a lot better off then we are now. When we do win in November it will be because of Dean's efforts to rebuild the party from the bottom up, the only way we will lose is if the other Party leaders continue to get in his way.

Hillary Clinton is not the problem, she is staying out of the fight between the wings of the parties, if you look at her response to the Lamont/Lieberman race vs DSCC Schumer's response there is a clear difference. Schumer and Emanuel represent the old school, Dean is the new school, and Hillary is waiting to see who wins. It is not just an ideological divide - though that is part of it. It is much more about running this campaign like all the previous failing ones (Schumer & Emanuel) and taking a fresh perspective based on what the rank and file members of the party actually want (Dean).

As I have stated above and previously I have a lot of problems with DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel's strategy but I don't want to be completely negative. They have an excellent page on John McHugh's record of selling-out the North Country, and they recently released an outstanding video that very effectively showed the failures of the Republicans and the Democratic hope for the future.

Unfortunately they bowed to Republican pressure and pulled down the ad, but you can still watch it in case you missed it.