Clinton's boys back me up

In the post below, I argued that the Daily Kos was wrong to say that Bush nominated stealth candidates to the SCOTUS because the Republican values and ideology are out of the mainstream.

Today, the Washington Post published the results of a report by two of President Clinton's former advisers that backs me up.

The piece is called "Report Warns Democrats Not to Tilt Too Far Left." It was written by William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck, who both worked in the Clinton White House and are now a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, respectively.

Key quote:

In one of their more potentially controversial findings, the authors argue that the rising numbers and influence of well-educated, socially liberal voters in the Democratic Party are pulling the party further from most Americans.

On defense and social issues, "liberals espouse views diverging not only from those of other Democrats, but from Americans as a whole. To the extent that liberals now constitute both the largest bloc within the Democratic coalition and the public face of the party, Democratic candidates for national office will be running uphill."

So to all those left-liberals out there (remember, progressive conservatives are the true liberals now), your tactic of demonizing your opponents by calling them "out of the mainstream" because they believe in abstinence-affirming sex education, or are opposed to abortion, just took a big hit.