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...Dole's lead over Clinton has vanished, there is a growing fear in G.O.P. circles that the party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander the party's chance to exploit Clinton's weakness and gain a new Republican dynasty...
...sentiment among his fellow exiles, Gutiarrez has also co-founded Puente, Spanish for "bridge," a group of Cuban professionals who aim to explain the older generation's anti-Castro fervor to younger Cuban Americans. He doesn't buy the claims by Menoyo and other dialogistas that they offer a centrist alternative to anti-Castro extremism. "What's a moderate?" asks Gutiarrez. "To say someone's a moderate because he'll talk to a brutal tyrant is a perversion of the label...
When a product proves defective, smart manufacturers either recall and fix it or abandon it entirely in favor of something new. When the product in question is a President, the remedy is similar but the course is vastly more complicated. And that's the problem confronting the centrist Democrats largely responsible for electing Bill Clinton...
Having accomplished that goal, Clinton has wandered. "Since his election," says DLC president Al From, "the President's campaign agenda hasn't been his first priority." A repeat of that performance is what many centrist boosters worry about most. Clinton's latest moves to the center, like his recent balanced-budget proposal, are viewed by the DLC as mere electoral tactics that may signify nothing at all about a second term's direction. "In '92 our ideas captured the country but not the party," says William Galston, who resigned recently as a White House aide to help develop what From...
...centrists don't want to go down with him. Explains Elaine Kamarck, a former PPI fellow currently working for Vice President Gore: "The DLC worries about dying off if the President's defeated. The battle for the party's soul will continue even if he wins. But if he loses, the liberals will claim that the dlc's centrist views were responsible and should be tossed aside entirely. The counterargument will be that just because the messenger proved imperfect, doesn't mean the message itself should be junked...