Listen to him: Bill Clinton Urges Party to Seek GOP Voters, Independents
From The Washington Post:
Former president Bill Clinton urged Democratic activists on Saturday to spend the final weeks of the midterm-election campaign appealing to independent and disaffected Republican voters, saying the Bush administration and Congress have been captured by the GOP's most ideological extremists.
In a speech that was as much a tutorial as a political call to arms, Clinton said at a Democratic fundraising dinner that Democrats must respond to public dissatisfaction with a positive agenda of their own on national security, the economy, energy and health care.
"We've got to go out there and look for all the Republicans and all the independents who are troubled," he said. "They know something is wrong, and they want to change."
Clinton said Democrats should not blame the whole of the Republican Party for the problems of the country.
"The entire government of the United States -- the Congress, the White House and increasingly the courts -- for the last six years has been in the control not of the Republican Party but the most ideological, the most extreme, the most right-wing sliver of the Republican Party," Clinton said at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest annual fundraising event.
He said Republicans have three governing priorities: concentration of wealth among the nation's richest individuals and biggest corporations; unlimited and unaccountable executive power; and painting opponents of their agenda as morally and politically inferior.
While attacking the Republican record, Clinton stressed that Democrats "believe in evidence and argument, not assertion and attack."
Former president Bill Clinton urged Democratic activists on Saturday to spend the final weeks of the midterm-election campaign appealing to independent and disaffected Republican voters, saying the Bush administration and Congress have been captured by the GOP's most ideological extremists.
In a speech that was as much a tutorial as a political call to arms, Clinton said at a Democratic fundraising dinner that Democrats must respond to public dissatisfaction with a positive agenda of their own on national security, the economy, energy and health care.
"We've got to go out there and look for all the Republicans and all the independents who are troubled," he said. "They know something is wrong, and they want to change."
Clinton said Democrats should not blame the whole of the Republican Party for the problems of the country.
"The entire government of the United States -- the Congress, the White House and increasingly the courts -- for the last six years has been in the control not of the Republican Party but the most ideological, the most extreme, the most right-wing sliver of the Republican Party," Clinton said at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest annual fundraising event.
He said Republicans have three governing priorities: concentration of wealth among the nation's richest individuals and biggest corporations; unlimited and unaccountable executive power; and painting opponents of their agenda as morally and politically inferior.
While attacking the Republican record, Clinton stressed that Democrats "believe in evidence and argument, not assertion and attack."
posted by Sid Cottingham | 1:52 PM
1 Comments:
Clinton is a damn good politicion and he is right in some things he says. The Reps are troubled but I believe they are troubled about the spending, the huge amounts of money being pissed away by this congress. The Dems should play up the reps not sticking to their guns. The havent shown fiscal restraint, they spend like dems.
If Clinton said the Dems should rest on their arguments and evidence he is partly right, they should make ANY argument other than the reps are wrong/stupid/etc. Thats all they ever say, they never ever tell anyone what kind of plan they have. If they would maybe I'd vote for my party again. I guess I could have gone to Kerrys website to see his plan?
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