PAUL BEGALA: He said that Obama is closing the door on those white, working-class voters. But if her point is that there’s a new Democratic Party that somehow doesn’t need or want white working-class people and Latinos, well count me out. We cannot win with egg heads. We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush. President Clinton — reached across to get a whole lot of Republicans and Independents to come. They both have a remarkable ability to reach out to those working-class white folks and Latinos. Senator Clinton has proven it; Barack has not yet, but he can. And I certainly hope he is not shutting the door on expanding the party.
BRAZILE: I’m saying that we need to not divide and polarize the Democratic Party as if the Democratic Party will rely simply on white, blue collar male– you insult every black blue collar Democrat by saying that. So stop the divisions. We know how Democrats win and to simply suggest that Hillary’s coalition is better than Obama’s, Obama’s is better than Hillary’s — no. We have a big party, Paul.
POSITIVELY ORWELLIAN.
BEGALA: We’re not the monochromatic Republican Party. In the Democratic Party, the only way we win is to stitch together white folks and African-Americans and Latinos and Asians. And that’s what President Clinton did twice. That’s how he won two national elections.
