More Muscle, More God, Less Shrum

online.wsj.com ^ | November 11, 2004 | DAN GERSTEIN

[crushelits]

As Democrats continue to sort through what went wrong on Election Day and how to remedy it, many have been tempted to blame John Kerry. He was, they say, an unappealing candidate, with an unpersuasive message, surrounded by unthinking strategists (see Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, silence on).

But those who point the finger at the candidate are only prolonging the destructive dance of denial the party has been engaged in since Bill Clinton left office, where we spend most of our post-election energy making excuses and finding scapegoats (see Ralph Nader) instead of confronting the painful reality that too many people are just not buying what we are selling.

We have to remember we nominated Mr. Kerry -- foolishly believing that his war-hero status would miraculously obscure his persistent equivocating on the central issue of the campaign, the war in Iraq. And we have to remember that it was not just Mr. Kerry who failed to unseat a failed president -- this was a wholesale repudiation of national Democrats in much of the country (see Tom Daschle).

If we want to stop this slide into long-term minority status and be competitive in national elections, we must own up to our major electoral weaknesses -- and do something about them.

We should start with a blunt assessment of the election results, which revealed that the majority of voters don't trust us on two critical threshold issues of the moment -- security and values. And by all indications they don't trust us largely because we are deeply out of touch with, and at times even contemptuous of, their views.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Social security has GOT to be changed, or it will collapse. The funny (really, sad) thing is, if 40 million U.S. babies had not been aborted, the social security system would have remained solvent a while longer because of the additional taxes these poor dead babies would have contributed.

[McGavin999]

Yep, the only way you can ever win, is to transform yourselves........into republican. That's what he's saying. And if you can't transform, you can con the people into believing you are (like Clinton) until some national tragedy comes along. Just look at how often Bill Clinton turned his head, and the national attention, away from terrorism while the enemy built up strength.

People are going to have a long memory about that.

The democrats problem is their constituants. How are they going to keep all the freaks quiet? How are they going to hide the hatred for America?

[aardvark1]

You are right. Hitlery does have a public record she will have to face. However, we shouldn't forget that she will have the MSM to help her package that record. Look at the most recent campaign. The Swifties were pilloried and blacklisted by the MSM while Rather showed they to what lenghths they are willing to go to get their candidate elected. Kerry's record on the other hand, was for the most part hidden or dressed up.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but we better be ready to deal with someone who will steal our best attributes to try to make it seem she shares them. We were not ready for this when X42 did it.

[Inwoodian]

"...the destructive dance of denial the party has been engaged in since Bill Clinton left office"

Change "Bill Clinton" to "JFK".

[crushelits]

Swift Republicans for Truth...

A new Website?

To unmask hitlary!

We should search all her speeches and start pounding this all over the INTERNET.

[wayoverontheright]

In essence, we've fallen right back into the elitist, weak-kneed, brain-dead trap from which Bill Clinton liberated the party.

Huh?

Bill Clinton swindled the voting public into thinking he was something he was not. A centrist my butt.

If we hadn't had a Republican dominated congress he would have succeeded in completely neutering the military, nationalized medicine, passed reparations for slavery, he would have increased income redistribution even more through taxes, and turned this country into France.

He perpetrated a ruse through his rhetoric, and his actions, thwarted attempts almost all of them, were those of someone who hated America, and the capitalist system.

Kerry had to obscure who he was too, he just wasn't as good at it, largely because most people realized they had been snookered by Clinton, IMHO.

[benjaminjjones]

More Muscle, More God, Less Shrcotum LOL

[petertare]

..and here comes the newly packaged bible thumpin, bib overall wearing NRA life member Nascar nazi cookie baking Hitlery....to a lamestream network near you!