Bill Clinton offered Democrats just such a debate in 1992 with his "New Democrat" ideas.
The two-term governor has been described as a "new Democrat" for his centrist views.
Of course, personal ties do not necessarily make Mr Kerry a fully-paid-up New Democrat like Bill Clinton.
The New Democrat Network launched its Spanish-language advertising campaign the day after the Bush ads came out.
Bill Clinton sold himself as a New Democrat who felt Middle America's pain.
But that is what New York Democrat Governor Cuomo has proposed, and what the New York Democrat legislature has enacted.
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"New Democrat" Watch is a series of Decision Briefs designed to illuminate important security policy decisions pending before the Clinton Administration.
Alexa McDonough, the New Democrat leader, has campaigned strenuously on health care, criticising both front-runners and calling for an expanded system.
Across town, Singapore Democratic Party members sell the latest issue of their official publication, The New Democrat, outside shopping centers on Orchard Road.
This shrewd New Democrat played a big part in getting Canada's constitution brought under overtly Canadian (rather than, theoretically, British) control in 1982.
Last month, Mr Bush re-submitted Mr Bolton's name in the hope of winning approval from the outgoing Senate before the new Democrat-controlled one comes in next month.
His role as chairman of the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, has led to the election of many centrist democrats into public office under his "New Democrat" campaign slogan.
It will also, inescapably, be a test of his judgment and the credibility of any claim he might yet make to credentials as a "New Democrat" with responsible views on defense and foreign policy.
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Some influential Republicans, judging that outright hostility to public spending is failing to win support, have been making speeches of a New Democrat kind, saying that government is all right after all, as long as it is competent.
Two months later, Mr Harper came close to being toppled by an alliance of the opposition Liberal and New Democrat parties over his handling of the economic crisis, but avoided a no-confidence vote by suspending parliament for a month.
Mr DiIulio is a studiously middle-of-the road figure, an active New Democrat who hangs his hat at the Brookings Institution as well as the Manhattan Institute and who wrote a coruscating article denouncing the Supreme Court decision that brought Mr Bush to office.
The Halperin appointment, in short, seemed to offer early confirmation of fears that President Clinton's campaign rhetoric about being a "New Democrat" -- one who would be responsible and tough-minded about national security matters -- would prove to be little more than that, empty rhetoric.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Case Against the Halperin Nomination -- First Edition
As the attached article by Joshua Muravchik -- a long-time Social Democrat who was a prominent supporter of Bill Clinton in his "New Democrat" candidate phase -- makes clear, in September 1975, Morton Halperin favorably reviewed Agee's first book Inside the Company: A CIA Diary.
"That might have worked a year and a half ago, but there's now a credibility gap among Latino voters -- he hasn't delivered on the promises of 2000, " said Maria Cardona, vice president for media relations and director of the Hispanic Project for the New Democrat Network.
Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked -- one way or the other -- by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton's New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush.
New York Democrat Charles Schumer predicted just before the committee's party line vote that William G.
That led New York Democrat Louise Slaughter to today call for Hastings' resignation as Ethics chairman.
The new Liberal Democrat member says "not a single person" thought he would succeed in Edinburgh.
New York Democrat Charlie Rangel, who heads the Tax Writing Ways and Means Committee, immediately made news.
Reagan was a son of the Midwest and grew up during the Depression as a young New Deal Democrat.
"I didn't know a lot about agriculture, " the New Jersey Democrat said, adding he's learned much from Iowa farmers.
" the New York Democrat asked Tuesday night on CNN's "Larry King Live.
And New York Democrat Charles Rangel said that's not just scoring political points.
Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, is also expected to face tough opposition once the full Senate takes it up.
But New York Democrat Gary Ackerman described it more as a surgical modification to carve out an exception for India.
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