Posted on 11/10/2006 1:08:07 AM PST by paudio
The conservative Democrats, or new Democrats as they are sometimes called, were disproportionately represented in the most highly contested races against Republicans, and are likely to form a substantial bloc within the new members.
Heath Shuler, a former American football celebrity who now holds a House of Representatives' seat for North Carolina, is representative of the group. He has an evangelical Christian background and is on the right of the argument on many social issues such as abortion.
Democratic party leaders deny that they had an official strategy to plant right-wing candidates in vulnerable Republican seats as a way of winning over voters. But Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the campaign to win back the House of Representatives, has said that when they searched for candidates with the best hopes of winning, they ended up with several with a moderate approach. "As a group, they are moderate in temperament and reformers in spirit," he said.
That is not the experience of Mr Shuler, who told local newspapers that he had been reluctant to stand for election but was strong-armed into it by Mr Emanuel. "Rahm was tougher than any of the college coaches who were calling me when I was in high school. None of [the coaches] could hold a candle to Rahm Emanuel as a recruiter," he said.
The number of conservative Democrats among the 28 who wrestled house seats from Republican incumbents has yet to emerge, but with 27 of the 40 candidates in the most contested seats falling into this category, the figure could be substantial. They will join an already sizeable caucus within the Democrats in Congress who are on the right of the party and will be encouraged to line up formally with the two existing sub-groups: the New Democrats and the Blue Dog Coalition.
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The intent is to set the Blue Dogs against the Leftists. Having their bills (or bills they favor) blocked in liberal committees will not endear the Blue Dogs to the liberals.
You got it and yeah you are right. My tagline kind of says it concerning what happened to us. I guess when Republicans act like Democrats and Democrats act like Conservatives. Democrats win.
You are right. They are too obsessed with promoting homosexuality. I just heard them interviewing pro-gay "conservative" on NPR. They are completely deranged.
Would you prefer being suckered by libertarians and wolves in sheep's clothing, instead?
Subversion. And do you think Schwarzenegger, Giuliani, and their ilk are any more sympathetic to pro-life and anti-gay marriage issues than the Dem leadership are?
Sounds like Schwarzenegger and Giuliani!
It would be so much easier if we had a major Libertarian Party and a major Christian Democratic Party here. Then every possible combination would have a party, and the Greens still don't get any!
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