By Liz Sidoti

Ask Democratic leaders to identify their party’s election-year message and you get everything but consensus. Ahead in polls, Democrats are divided over whether they already have - or even need - a national theme that tells voters exactly where the party stands.

“One message? Hmmm. I don’t know. Let me think about it,” Alvaro Cifuentes said after a long pause. Several minutes later, the head of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus said: “You can’t try to simplify your politics with a slogan. You can’t.”

In more than a dozen interviews, Democrats who gathered here for the DNC’s spring meeting rattled off lists of what they believe to be their party’s message in 2006. Each had a different take.

Some said their party stands for affordable health care, lobbying reform, lower federal deficits. Others mentioned human rights, the well-being of families and the search for new energy sources. Still others cited education money, Medicare that works, a reliable Social Security program and world peace.

Lots of issues. No single message.

“It’s not that we don’t stand for anything, it’s that sometimes we stand for everything,” said Barry Rubin, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

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As we’ve seen time and time again, the real plan of the Democratic Party is to attempt to seize power by using the power of obstruction to derail any constructive legislation proposed by President Bush or other Republican Party members. Clearly, the reason the Democratic Party has no single message is that every message its given thus far is a form of obstructionism or an action of denouncing President Bush.

Even if the Democratic Party put together a single message in order to win votes, the body politic just wouldn’t buy it. As conservatives have observed, every year Democratic Party members have moved to the center-right of the political mainstream in an attempt to win votes. They’ve also become offended when they’ve been called “liberal.” However, the truth is, the Democratic Party message of greater government involvement in life and higher taxes just doesn’t sell to the American people. If the Democratic Party wants to gain power in Congress or the White House ever again, it must reform itself to genuinely care about traditional American values, low taxes, and limited government.