The DLC and Me

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, I’m not running for president. I feel I have to squash the speculation, which I’m sure is rampant across the land, after I spoke at a political rally following Senator John Edwards and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.

Here’s how it happened. Every year the Democratic Leadership Council has a big meeting, which, since they are Democrats, they call a “Conversation.” They usually bring in a few pundits to give a more or less objective view of the state of politics. I did it last year for them at a meeting in Key Largo, where I told them that I thought the moderate DLC wing of the Democratic Party was waning; that unfortunately the Democrats were reverting to the orthodox liberalism of their Mondale-Dukakis roots.