Are you happy with the state of your party?

[TheresNoMoney]

Not happy at all.  We need to get back to our populist roots.  We are no longer the party of the working class, and the American people know it.  We've sold them out.

Totally agree.

I am happy with people like Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Brian Schweitzer, Elliot Spitzer, and Dick Durbin, but upset with many other Washington Democrats (like all those who voted for the bankruptcy bill) and those who are scared to stand up to the extremist Republican agenda.

I am also not happy about having Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh as our top two nominees for 2008, since both represent the corporate wing of the Democratic party.

[TheresNoMoney]

I'd have happily voted for him as a Democrat and I still think there is a place for moderare populist conservatives, like Zell, in the Democratic Party.

Zell is no moderate. He's farther right than the vast majority of Republicans. He's far right, bordering on right-wing extremist.

[TheresNoMoney]

Dave, Scoonie's comments are a bit overkill, but it brings to mind the important phenomenon that, among US voters, "social" issues are very important.

You don't know what I was thinking. I wasn't only thinking about social issues. Zell is far right on all issues. He wants to abolish the IRS and have no federal income tax for instance. This is not the stance of a moderate.