Delaware Liberal

I was moved by the newly adopted Democratic Party Platform. It collects a lot of our best values and highest aspirations. What it doesn't do is summarize those values into a quick elevator speech. A quick manifesto or touchstone. Here is my take on what that might look like:

He excels at indecision and lack of vision, but unforced errors are Carney's speciality. -Via BlueDelaware

As the lone vote against releasing CZA gutting (HB 190) from committee, Kowalko took the opportunity to drop a truth bomb on the process:

I can see the influence of the Bernie campaign in his document:

The party's newly approved platform, formulated over a year with statewide input, endorses: a $15 minimum wage; fighting and overturning Citizens United; fighting wealth and income inequality; a commitment to ending Super PACs; equal pay for equal work; ending mass incarceration; working toward debt-free college; expanding and investing in green energy; a commitment to mental health and substance abuse treatment; and Wall Street reform. At the meeting, the party also approved resolutions reaffirming commitment to organized labor, supporting internet privacy, opposing defunding of Planned Parenthood and overturning of Roe v. Wade, supporting a ban on gay conversion therapy, increasing young adult participation in the political process, strengthening the Voting Rights Act and "resisting the Trump agenda" which it called "destructive."

Some of it, no doubt, came as surprise to Governor Carney and Acting Governor Schwartzkopf.

Yesterday I wrote that Governor Carney, Acting Governor Schwartzkopf and various elected Dems are on track to blow the next elections. Republicans have a organizational culture and marketing story that resonates with voters even though it has been exposed time and again as mostly economic nonsense wrapped in racism. The trouble is...Democrats, particularly Democratic office holders have no story. Trying to knit together a coherent picture of what it means to be a Democrat by looking at the gyrations of the current Den majority in Leg Hall is the definition of a mug's game. There are people working to change that though, and whether or not they can wrest the Dem marketing message away from vision-less dolts like Carney will tell the tale of Democratic fortunes in Delaware for the next 30 years. These people are a new generation of Party leaders like Cassandra Marshall who fought a pitched battle to break into and become chair of the clubby and lethargic Wilmington Democratic Party.

Alby posted a link dealing with the UK vote in the open thread. Interesting stuff, and a lot that may play out in our upcoming Delaware elections. The whole "something beats nothing" comes to mind. Carney and the Dems are shaping up to be the party of nothing. Carney doesn't even have the low hanging fruit of Gay Marriage, as it's all been picked by Markell. Meanwhile the Dem house caucus, and Brian Townsend's championing of the CZA gutting make it impossible for "Democrat" to mean anything coherent, so Dem challengers to R incumbents will be stymied unless they have their own charisma or some kind of locally stirring manifesto. Bottom Line: I see Republicans making big gains this mid-term and taking back the Gov's Mansion in the next cycle.

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I'm going to Stoney's Pub to support Delaware Shakespeare* and hopefully watch Jeremy Corbyn shock the world by becoming the UK's next Prime Minister, so I will not be commenting.…