[T]he party stands to make major gains in next month's elections, but those will not be votes for Democrats so much as votes against Mark Foley, Iraq and Republican hubris. As such, they might produce a majority, but not a mandate. For that to happen, Democrats must first figure out two things: what they believe in and how to express it.The pen (or the words) as used by lying crapweasels is more powerful than the sword (also prefered by the lying crapweasels). Especially when the words contain truth.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
what's wrong with the Democrats?
a (necessarily) multi-post issue
Part one: Leonard Maltin has part of the answer:
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thats pretty much what I have been saying. I can't figure where they stand except against bush.
js
I agree. I don't think they have any idea what their message is or how to get it across. I don't know how this election is going to go, but the repulicans have already proven that they can steal elections. I don't think they would waste it on a non-presidential year, but weith electronic voting machines, whot he hell knows anymore?
come on now UWl, please dont subscribe to the conspiricy theories.
Why dont the Dems just say what they believe?
Call the DNC and tell them just to say it.
I wish there were no lawyers and no carreer politicions at all running, for either side.
j
The one thing that the conservatives have over the democrats is a unified vision that covers most of the conservatives involved. Why we can’t come up with a unified vision is beyond me. It’s as if we are afraid to define a vision for ourselves. Very anti-productive. We better get busy.
Actually the right wing does not have a unified view. They just market one. Right now we are seeing the gop cave in on itself because the opposing views and opposing practices are coming light. You can't serve god and mammon. The Christians are seeing that they are really the ones getting used and screwed by the gop.
They did a great job of keeping the message on track but once the truth came out, scandals, deficit, uncontrolled spending, lies about values, etc.. the lies and deceit are coming to the top.
Right now the Democrats central message is developing around reasserting the oversight role of the congress. They are not articulating it well because they are still playing catchup in the frame game. But that is the central issue. This is a legislative election and they are focused on oversight of the executive branch as described in the Constitution. The gop rubber stamp congress has ceded far too much of its responsibility to the executive branch under the guise of bogus needs in this so called war on terror.
One word message - OVERSIGHT!
I agree with Rebecca, for sure. They should just say what they believe in. Whatever that is. I'd like to know.
We the Dems are for
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we are against 1
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and I agree with cy too, the reps have abused the dems in the marketing and sales category, but thats because they, for the most part, agreed on a group of thoughts and ideas to sell and market and the Dems are either afraid to say what they believe,
not smart enough to figure out what they believe or havent a clue what they believe, it can pretty much only be one of these three.
js
Maybe it's just as well that the Dems cant come up with a list. Seems to me that the bigger the list that everyone can agree on, the fewer the people actually writing the list. Maybe the Republican Party is all about central control, but the Democrats are supposed to be about the People, the more the better.
Maybe they should just come up with one central theme, something like People, Not Things, or, People First The Economy Second, or, It's Not A Boom Economy Unless Everybody Booms.
There is a big difference between marketing something and actually delivering it. The gop hasn't delivered and the customer is pissed. The gop marketing package turned out to be hollow. Does winning an elelction make that OK? Of course it does not.
This election is simple, OVERSIGHT, one message. It's the gop that has no ideas in this election.
In 2008 a presidential candidate will have to articulate a broader set of ideas and the situation in Iraq weill dictate a large part of that.
By then the economy should be in pretty bad shape, so there's that.
I would run on;
Reducing the deficit, which democrats have been very good at, because is mortgaging our future.
Untangling our involvement in Iraq, however that looks by then, renewing the fight against those who attacked us on 9/11 and repairing our broken foreign policy in general.
Ending the war on the middle class by getting healthcare cost under control and making it available to everyone at a reasonable cost, raising the limits on retirement accounts that are pre-tax, removing all federal taxes on the first $75,000.00 of income for individuals and rolling back the tax breaks in the top bracket.
Funding science that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, while ending subsidies to big oil companies.
Ending corporate welfare and tax loopholes.
Renegotiate ALL free trade agreements to include fair trade clauses that eliminate profit from slave wage on foreign countries.
oh yeah, "...and as your President I will execute only those authorities given me by the Constitution and promise to protect the rights guaranteed to individuals by the same Constitution."
Ok this is a banner day for me!!!!!
I didnt get called a moron, idiot,fool or any other thing, and on top of all that I agree with y'all!
damn
see this is how it should work in Washington!
j
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