" ...Joey’s interested in appealing to good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals"
I understand your frustration, Joey, I wish people like that would stand up to your black-shirted storm troopers, but face it, "good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals" aren't the backbone of your party anymore. They've been basically extinct since January 13, 1978, when Hubert Humphrey died.
The Dems actually ran an admitted socialist ( More accurately a"closeted communist") for president, for God's sake!
"Good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals" don't exist in your party anymore.