Bayh Blasts Democratic Factionalism
ShareAnswering a question about the frustration of minority party factionalism at today's DLC conference, Sen. Evan Bayh recounted the following two anecdotes:
He remembered a conversation with 30 or 40 forty colleagues in early 2002. "The meeting went on for hours. 3000 Americans had just been killed four or five months before and we concluded that we wanted to make that fall's election a referendum on Medicare and Social Security. ... Those are both very worthy topics. This was not going to happen. We had to address national security. We had to say, here's how we're going to defend America and we're going take a backseat to no one."
Bayh then recalled a more recent discussion with party leaders over how to brand the party's message heading into 2006.
Said Bayh: "We spent 40 minutes on whether our slogan ought to be 'America can do better' or 'Together, American can do better', which led me observe that apparently, we were divided on using the the word together.'"
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