Tom Watson: The Small Tent Democrats: '...And some of that thinking manifests itself in shouts of 'real Democrat' and the like. But in my view, suggesting that only Barack Obama and his backers are the 'real Democrats,' and that the party would best be served by the leave-taking of Clinton and her base, is so much whistling past the graveyard. If she does, you become a third party overnight. If the electoral map shows you anything, it shows in hues of blues and red and purple the continued need for a Democratic coalition based on economic common cause.
I may be more liberal than much of the pro-Hillary crowd in the Democratic Party, and yeah, I spend much of my time with the so-called 'creative class,' but I know that the only way to advance the cause of more progressive policy in the United States is through a big-tent party.
As the well-named Big Tent Democrat asks in a post questioning Markos: 'I wonder who the real Dems are. The ones who say they will unify the Party or the ones intent on destroying Hillary Clinton?'
UPDATE: BTD (an Obama supporter, I might note) adds an insightful kicker: "In a way, there is a certain clarity that is being reached in the Obama blogworld - they want the Clinton part of the Democratic Party and the Clinton legacy demolished and destroyed. I personally think that leads to political suicide for the Democratic Party. But the Unity Schtick does not appear to extend to fellow Dems from the Obama blogs. Their hatred of Bill and Hillary Clinton has become more important to them than Obama's chances of winning in November."'
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