More winning moves

An addendum to my last post. I think that one of the smartest things that the Democrats did during the Clinton years was to neutralize 3 traditions strengths by putting forward, sensible, moderate proposals to solve real problems -- welfare reform, balanced budget and crime. There are lots of areas now we could do the same -- tort reform, abortion reduction, marriage promotion, AMT. It means putting something out there which could be criticized, including by some of our allies, but until we get a Democratic leader who can put forward a compelling vision of what our party stands for, at least we can address some of our perceived weaknesses and hopefully make some real progress.