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Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is running for US Senate in the great state of Kentucky.

She is a woman of conviction, of substance, of principle. Im not an empty dress, she insists,

Im not a rubber stamp, and I am not a cheerleader! I am a Clinton Democrat.

Clinton Democrat once had a fairly specific meaning. Back when Bill Clinton first ran for president, he did so as a new kind of Democrat.

He decried the brain-dead policies of both parties.He was so determined to dispel Democrats image as being soft on crime, he took time off from the campaign trail to approve the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a man so mentally disabled that when he ate his last meal, he left some of his pecan pie on his plate and told guards he was saving it for later.

Clinton broke with his partys racial politics by deliberately picking a fight with the deservedly forgotten rapper Sister Souljah. He vowed to reform welfare (though it took a Republican Congress to get him to follow through) and end the era of something for nothing government handouts.

The Clinton Democrats were spawns of the Democratic Leadership Council, a proudly centrist, pro-business and hawkish outfit within the Democratic Party, which is why left-wing Democrats often distrusted and occasionally despised it.

Jesse Jackson said DLC stood for Democrats for the Leisure Class and ridiculed it as a Southern white boys club.

The DLC closed up shop in 2011, in large part because the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left a fact repeatedly confirmed by Pew and Gallup surveys showing that Democrats favor activist government more than they used to and are much more comfortable calling themselves liberals than they were even a decade ago.

So its interesting that Grimes, and a number of other Democrats, are calling themselves Clinton Democrats. Grimes goes so far as to insist, Im not Barack Obama. She wont even say if she voted for Obama in 2008 or 2012.

Originally posted here:
The Clinton Dem dodge