Too many political commentators who should know better are still insisting that a winning combination consists of riling up your base by demonizing the opposition, and of throwing bribery money around to identified interest groups. If the Dems ever do a Gingrich we could have problems - (1) identify 10 specific issues, (2) state 10 specific programs that will deal with them, and (3) propose placing all 10 up for a vote within the first 100 days of the congressional session. They won't because they can't.
I think that the Dems could come up with 10 issues, but the problem is the programs. The party doesn't have a plan. It's run out of ideas. On any given issue the best they can come up with is "the Republicans screwed that up, and we'll do better, don't ask us how, and oh, by the way, we need to give money to this or that group to solve it." Hubert Humphrey is spinning in his grave.
"If the Dems ever do a Gingrich we could have problems - (1) identify 10 specific issues, (2) state 10 specific programs that will deal with them, and (3) propose placing all 10 up for a vote within the first 100 days of the congressional session. They won't because they can't."
They know that the Republicans can point to any of their liberal stances and show how that exact program screwed up any one of the now fallen communist countries, or point to Cuba, as proof that it not only won't work, but as all liberalism does, have the opposite result of its desired effect.
Oh....I thought they were going for the dairy vote.
The party doesn't have a plan. It's run out of ideas.
The sad truth is that they have already implemented most of the "Communist Manifesto". All they can do now is defend their turf.