An excellent point
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ebonlock"Run away! Run away!"
There are geniuses at work inside the Democratic Party who are convinced that the best way to get back inside the walls of the White House, and take back the majorities in both houses of Congress, is to build a Trojan Horse of a party.
The idea is that if a candidate talks in a vague, mushy, apologetic way sort of like a Republican, voters will mistake him or her for a Republican and vote them into office where their true Democratic warrior spirit will hop out and lay waste to the citadel.
The trouble is that they can't design and build a convincing horse.
They keep building a Trojan Rabbit.
And then forget to put the Democratic warriors inside.
Nobody's fooled and the Dems wind up having the damn thing catapulted back at them at which point they scatter in terror shouting "Run away! Run away!" and from the walls of the castle the Republicans make faces and mock them in bad French accents.
There are geniuses at work inside the Democratic Party who are convinced that the best way to get back inside the walls of the White House, and take back the majorities in both houses of Congress, is to build a Trojan Horse of a party.
The idea is that if a candidate talks in a vague, mushy, apologetic way sort of like a Republican, voters will mistake him or her for a Republican and vote them into office where their true Democratic warrior spirit will hop out and lay waste to the citadel.
The trouble is that they can't design and build a convincing horse.
They keep building a Trojan Rabbit.
And then forget to put the Democratic warriors inside.
Nobody's fooled and the Dems wind up having the damn thing catapulted back at them at which point they scatter in terror shouting "Run away! Run away!" and from the walls of the castle the Republicans make faces and mock them in bad French accents.
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Date: 2006-01-23 10:25 pm (UTC)Time to look at this from a football coaching perspective...
Date: 2006-01-24 05:33 am (UTC)So what are the D's weakest on right now? They lack coherent leadership and don't project a sense that they know what to do about Iraq in particular and the wider national security scene in general.
As a result, now - not later, NOW - they need to start hammering home the point that everyone in the GOP leadership is up to their neck in sludge. Every day, every news show, every candidate. And they also need to hammer the point that four years on, we still don't have Osama bin Laden, we don't have Mullah Omar, we don't have the first weapon of mass destruction, and as a result, we're so overextended in Iraq that we can't do anything about North Korea, which HAS a nuke, and Iran, which is dead set on getting one. And definitely hammer home the point that for three years, the GOP has had the entire government by the nuts, which means that they bear full responsibility for EVERYTHING that's gone down since.
And I hate to be the one to say it, but Howard Dean and Al Gore are not the guys to deliver this message. For better or worse, the national media has already built their images, and the effort of undoing the damage is energy that should be expended on offense, not rehab. Now's the time to unleash the triple-A guys: Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Barack Obama, Evan Bayh. Fresh blood, new ideas, new faces. Every day that the face of the Democratic Party is a Kennedy, a Clinton, or a former Presidential candidate is a day wasted.
In short: eat right, drink plenty of fluids, and GO LIKE HELL.
Re: Time to look at this from a football coaching perspective...
Date: 2006-01-24 05:00 pm (UTC)Bush was in Vietnam? Dude he never made it any further than the northeast. Daddy took care of that.
But as to your other points I'd say you're probably right, though I would argue that Dean has been doing a fucking spectacular job raising funds for the Dems and his grassroots organizations and state wide investment in local Dem organizations will have long term benefits.
Still, the idea that our current geniuses choise Kaine to do the response to the SOTU rather than..oh..say someone like Murtha who's getting incredibly good press for us, just goes to show how far this party's head is up its own ass. But that's just me, I find Kaine's pandering to the moral values crowd absurd at best.