"I represent that remark, Noonan!"
Posted on 01/06/2005 5:02:31 AM PST by RWR8189
The 109th Congress has been sworn in and convened, and now the new post-election reality begins. If I were a Democrat right now I would think big and get serious. Second terms are tough for incumbents; history has not handed George W. Bush an easy ride, and there's no reason to think that will change now; and Mr. Bush is a gambler who's not afraid to throw the dice, which means he will likely have not only stunning gains but stunning losses ahead. The Democrats are still competitive. "In every defeat lies the seed of future victory, in every victory lies the seed of future defeat." Every morning I'd put my game face on knowing my party will stand a good chance of making a big presidential comeback in four years. Look confident; this will encourage victory. Or at least leave people saying you look confident, which for you will be a victory.
No one wants to be head of the Democratic National Committee. This is bad but understandable. A fractious party has been further fractured by a hard year. What you need for DNC chairman is a man or woman of some stature who can make the case for your party day in and day out in big media. Fund-raising expertise is secondary--hire someone to do it. So is organizational skill--hire organizers. You need someone who makes the Democratic Party look nonsleazy, nonmanipulative and nonweak on TV. He doesn't have to be nationally known, but he must be--how to put this?--good-natured, moderate in manner, and normal-seeming. That would mean not Howard Dean.
There is much to build on. You hold 44 Senate seats, 202 House seats and 22 governorships. You have been on a losing strain for a while, but you can turn that into opportunity.
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"The dems have truly lost their way and their souls."
And that big sucking sound you hear is the 50+million who voted for Kerry (supposedly) going down the toilet with them.
"Jerry Brown"
I like Jerry Brown too, for a dem, but I am afraid that like "Screaming" Howard Dean (no flaming, I hate Dean because I am pretty sure he is an abortionist, certainly a radical abortion rights advocate, but I don't really think he is crazy, just because he had an exuberant moment. If that was really the standard, I'd be in Bellvue myself right now), Brown has been permanently branded by the MSM as "Governor Moonbeam".
The MSM may like the left a lot more than the right, but that does not stop them from unfairly mocking people of the left for their own useless amusement. This is a big part of the reason that it is hard to get good, smart, honest people into elected office.
Wonder if the dem voters will figure out how they were scammed.
Think they care? It's every man for himself! Women and children...last.
I was referring to the average young person who sent money to Dean......and the fools on the college campus who sent money to Kerry.
Oh, okay.
I guess I was thinking do the Dems care if they were scammed. I think they almost wouldnt care.
Skweeze me??
The "big media" has been trying to do that for almost 40 years...even stooping to falsified memos and being co-conspirators. THe Big Media is a first cousin of the Democratic Party.
"I represent that remark, Noonan!"
They are FOR income redistribution because it fits their egalitarian beliefs AND because they have to BUY votes.
Instead they're contesting Bush's election. which makes them look like cheap suits or nutballs, depending on you point of view.
Evan Bayh doesn't sound crazy. He will be the nominee in '08, if they're smart. Of course, they're not.
The Pubs should do everything they can to get Bayh over to the right side. Any Indiana Freepers have opinions on Bayh?
Good advice for both parties.
Good advice for everyone.
Shalom.
I saw that too, but last time Brown was on he DID come off as a nut case.
"And don't forget to confuse categories. Be counterintuitive. Republican Mike Bloomberg of New York won't let workingmen and -women smoke at the local bar. Democrats always wind up in support of such measures. Don't! Distance yourself from the smoke Nazis, from all Nazis. Be sane; take the side of normal humans with normal imperfections. Let the Republicans look stupid on these issues if they choose to.
What is she trying to say?
The Rats are the ones behind the smoking bans, and that's why we hate BloomingIdiot. He is nothing but a RINO.
I predict that the rats become something akin to the Green party and cease to be a factor in American Politics. Not to say that's the end of the two-party system. I predict the conservatives and neo-liberals in the Republican Party won't be able to play together over time and one faction or the other will split and form a new opposition party.
governor moonbeam? I believe he said he was going to run for Senate. But I think he would take the DNC chair.
I'm glad someone besides me noticed that. He got tagged with being insane, but he had that huge grin on his face when he was done and looked to me like he was just having a lot of fun firing up his campaign team. In some ways it was his most likeable moment.
That was a case of the MSM going in the tank early and spiking Dean's campaign in favor of the sKerry one. In fact, that may have given them such a sense of their own invulnerability that they thought they could drive the general election as well. Too bad for them.
I blame Boooosh! And Halliburton.
"That was a case of the MSM going in the tank early and spiking Dean's campaign in favor of the sKerry one."
Yes, you are right. Rathergate was rewarding, but those folks need to come down a bunch more pegs, they really don't do their constitutionally mandated jobs at all. Not the real mainstreamers, anyway. All the respectable opinion journals, right & left, do a better job.
I'll never forget when Steve Forbes was running for Pres. the first (only?) time, and a return to the Gold Standard was part of his platform. He was on one of the insipid morning shows and all they did was basically laugh at him over it. Didn't ask him to explain it, or why he thought it was a good idea, nothing! Here was this millionaire, publisher of a well respected business magazine, with this BIG idea in economics, and all the two dopes interviewing him did was treat him like a boob. I supported Forbes, although I figured he was a no-chancer (unfairly, like Miracle Joe Lieberman, just not handsome enough to be President in the TV age), but it wasn't that I supported him that infuriated me so much. You are right, they see their role as one of manipulation, I guess that's a post-Watergate thing, not informing the public.
Those AM shows are particularly bad. The only reason I even saw the Forbes interview was that I got in a really bad (and long) jag of watching those shows during some really awful winters we had a few years ago. Thank goodness I can watch Fox or the Weather Channel should that ever happen again.
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