WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Virginia Democratic Gov. Mark Warner said Sunday his party needs to be a centrist party if it is going to win the presidency back.
Warner, prevented by law from running for a second term as governor, is widely regarded as a possible 2008 presidential candidate. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," he called for the Democratic Party to stop focusing on how the Iraq War began and concentrate on how it is being carried out now.
Congressional Democratic leaders have recently called for an investigation into whether the Bush administration manipulated pre-war intelligence to win public support for the war.
Warner said the next Democratic candidate should be able to capture the votes of the "sensible center" of the country and focus on fiscal responsibility.
Warner said he ran Virginia as a results-oriented governor and said the state has been managed better than federal politicians in Washington, D.C., are managing the nation's affairs. He said he'd "take that comparison any day of the week."
Warner also said the next presidential candidate should feel comfortable talking about religion.
