Artur isn't a koolaid drinker. I think he was more or less forced into supporting zero last time around.
this is not about renouncing my support of Barack Obama four years ago. That happened and you can’t change the script on that. And I very much believe and still believe in the America that you heard me describe in that line from the very forgettable nominating speech four years ago.
But I no longer think that the Democratic Party is the best way to deliver that kind of America. What was it that I talked about? I talked about a country where there were no limitations based on your race. I talked about a country where aspiration was the driving force in America.
Unfortunately, I see the Democratic Party taking a step backward on both those fronts. I see more of an embrace of identity politics and group politics, which makes us more fractured than united, and candidly, I see the Republican Party talking more effectively about growth. Because growth is the key to mobility and aspiration.
Well, the president I think pretty articulately represents what the Democratic Party is today.
there’s no question that there’s a far left in the Democratic Party just as there’s a far right in the Republican Party, but one of the things that I’m trying to do is to make the point that there’s a vibrant center right in this country, people who understand that government can’t be thrown to the ground and can’t be discarded.
But the way that we’re doing things and the idea that exists on the left that more is always better, that being more aggressive in terms of engaging the private economic sector is always better, that perspective I think is not only wrong, I think it’s being proven wrong the deeper we move into the economic doldrums we have.
What we’re doing is not working because we’ve just finished a decade that was the least growth that we’ve had in the post-war era, with the possible exception of the slow growth 1970s. We finished a period where after passing the most comprehensive education reform that we’ve had in this country, No Child Left Behind, we’ve lost ground in educational performance in many areas.
So what we’re doing is not working. I align myself with the center right. There is no center right in the Democratic Party; there is one in the Republican Party.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/05/154354189/artur-davis-on-leaving-his-job-home-and-party