The Direction of the Democratic Party if Obama loses...

[War on Want]

Hopefully our leadership will be people like Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, Mark Warner, etc., and we'll become a moderate, Southern based Party.  No more nominating New England liberals like Kerry.

John Kerry was a good senator, just a bad candidate and I think it is funny you are bashing him for being from New England.
Also wtf on wanting the Democrats to become southern, you come from Alexandria, Ben not Alabama and the South's politics suck.

[War on Want]

Gore and Kerry certainly weren't from the liberal wing of the party.

Kerry who?

John Kerry.

Remember him? He ran against George W Bush in 2004?

He was a moderate.

And he was from New England.  Did he win?

No one cares that he was from New England.

[War on Want]

If our best (or the GOPs worst) isnt enough, we need to make a new type of Democratic Party. One that is totally different than what we have now, but won't be GOP-lite.

So pretty much what you are suggesting is selling out any Social Democratic views we still have and replacing them with pragmatic social liberalism? I'd pass on that.

[War on Want]

I don't think the 'center-right' is necessarily a bad place to be given that the American electorate is so heavily to the right compared to virtually every other country. If the Democrats tout bread & butter issues (healthcare, education, infrastructure), leave social issues more to the states, promote fiscal discipline, and advocate a humble foreign policy (ie not neoCon)  they will do very well.

I support this but at the same time we must still affirm that we are socially progressive at the same time.