“Make no mistake: Spitzer is the Democratic Party’s future. Or, at the very least, a significant part of it.”
Make no mistake: Spitzer is the Democratic Party’s future. Or, at the very least, a significant part of it. Yes, there’s the presidential nominee, who at the time of this writing registered with American voters as either “the other guy” or the one who didn’t use faulty information to settle an old score and send U.S. troops into war. But, along with Michigan’s governor, Jennifer Granholm, and the soon-to-be Illinois senator Barack Obama, Spitzer represents the cutting-edge model of the post-Clinton Democrat, drawn from a generation of politicians whose formative experience wasn’t the civil-rights movement, who are tough on crime, and whose foreign policy isn’t shaped by Vietnam.
“He’s an extraordinary candidate,” says the Democratic National Committeeman Robert Zimmerman, talking about Spitzer’s prospects not only for the governorship but also, one imagines, for still higher office. “He’s not received in a partisan light. He gets standing ovations in the heart of Republican suburbs and New York City. It’s the same response. He has a national constituency and a national message. He’s very significant to the Democratic Party, to what we believe in as a country and, quite frankly, what we believe in as Democrats.”
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