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When liberals must conserve.(THE OUT YEARS)(Democrats need to restore conservative values)(Column)

American Prospect, The,  January, 2006  by Schmitt, Mark

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"WE NEED A MESSAGE." "WE NEED A PHILOSOPHY." "We need a simple statement of what we believe, just like the right has." No meeting of progressives lasts long before these sentiments are expressed. Sometimes a committee will be assigned to frame the new message.

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The result might be a crisp but banal statement of uncontested values. Or a list of 62 programs that acknowledge all the key constituencies and causes. As a colleague of mine once said, most attempts at this synthesis are no worse than any other, and no better. Why is this so hard? Why ...

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