''DLC Rising?''

"Two years ago, as the Democratic primary season was heating up and Dean's star was very much on the rise, I remember noting with amusement that not a single Democratic Presidential candidate either spoke or attended the annual DLC meeting in Philadelphia. That, however, is a very stark contrast with the meeting this year: I am not a master political strategist by any means, but one thing I can tell anyone not named Hillary Clinton right now is that you have no prayer of defeating, much less seriously competing, with Hillary in the 2008 primaries if you take the same path she takes. If Hillary is in the race, then she is the DLC candidate, period. I don't care if Vilsack is the DLC Chair--Hillary shares a name with the only President they helped elect. You cannot possibly hope to challenge her by somehow out-DLCing her. Your only option is going to be to look to outside sources of power within the Democratic Party that she would not have a stranglehold over, such as labor and the netroots. In fact, finding, appealing to, and eventually tapping the rising netroots star may even take a noticeable amount of distancing one's self from the DLC, which, deservedly or not, is, um, not very well liked in these parts."-from Chris Bowers' post on MyDD.