Do The Democrats Need To Execute A Couple Of Retards?

Two pointed headed intellectuals are arguing that, to regain power, Democrats will have to break with their intellectual liberal base and move toward the political center.

"They suggest that Democratic presidential candidates replicate Clinton's tactics in 1992, when he broke with the party's liberal base by approving the execution of a semi-retarded prisoner."

Is that really what got Clinton elected? Is that what stood between John Kerry and the Whitehouse?