Democrats everywhere are estatic about what happened earlier in the week, and it was moderates and independents that brought home the impressive victory.
By an overwhelming majority, moderates voted for the Democrats in this cycle. Almost 60% of so-called centrists abandoned the Republicans because of the corruption and Iraq. Now that the victory is here, it would be ill advised to bank hard left, and not learn from history.
So far, Democrats and Bush have talked a great game, but results matter, and the American people want the president and Democratic leaders to work together to find common ground. Bush and the Republicans forgot that sticking to a very conservative agenda was going to piss off a good majority of voters.
Although the voters threw right wing extremism out the door, they certainly don’t want to go in the other direction either. Poll after poll indicated that a more moderate, mainstream approach is what they want. Failure to take the advice might just get the Democrats thrown out on their ear.
Now is the time to demostrate the words that both Democratic leaders and Bush spoke of while they were in front of the cameras at the White House weren’t just a smokescreen. Common ground can work if the two sides want it to work.
Americans gave the Democrats a golden opportunity to show what they can do in the next two years. Don’t blow it or the independents and moderates who put Democrats in power, might just as easily turn around and kick them out on their asses as well.
