Posted on 12/11/2005 10:26:46 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Democrats Test Themes for `06 and `08
By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer 11 minutes ago
To hear Democrats tell it, an anxious and isolated public craves a sense of national community and would galvanize behind a leader who asks people to sacrifice for the greater good. John Edwards says he's that leader.
Wait a minute, so does Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Ditto for Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
Edwards, Vilsack and Warner, all likely presidential candidates in 2008, are toying with the same lofty community-and-purpose message. And that says as much about the sour mood of the country as it does about the state of the Democratic Party.
"There is a hunger in America, a hunger for a sense of national community, a hunger for something big and important and inspirational that they all can be involved in," Edwards, the party's 2004 vice presidential nominee, told delegates at a weekend convention of Florida Democrats.
"Americans don't want to believe that they are out there on an island all alone," the former North Carolina senator said.
This is not a new theme. As first lady, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York wrote, "It Takes a Village," a book arguing that a community is an important part of a child's development. Her husband, President Clinton, tried to create a sense of national purpose when he asked Americans to help "build a bridge to the 21st century."
The difference now is that six of every 10 people tell pollsters that the country is headed on the wrong track. Democrats believe they can put Republicans on the defensive by articulating the public's sense of malaise and offering hope to erase it.
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Their themes seem to alternate between "Bush sucks," "We're not Bush," and "We support the troops (*snicker*...yeah, right), but they suck," and "Ah, who are we kidding? America sucks!"
So, in short, the Democrats are showing that they are the suckiest sucks that ever sucked.
>>"Americans don't want to believe that they are out there on an island all alone" <<
This American does. And you are voted off the island, moron.
I had to make sure that this wasn't Scrappleface. LMAO!
BRILLIANT!
They should use the Theme music from "The Biggest Loser."
(That was not directed at you, of course...)
"An anxious and isolated public craves a sense of national community and would galvanize behind a leader who asks people to sacrifice for the greater good."
This is total nonsense. The left is out of touch with reality. The American people are not anxious, and certainly don't feel isolated.
Tell any of the Democratic constituencies that they won't get what they want and it'll blow that party apart. "Sacrifice for the common good" will be for the evil rich people to funnell more money through the government to their pet constituencies.
Though it does recall Hillary's 'take things away for the common good' thing, doesn't it?
"There is a hunger in America, a hunger for a sense of national community, a hunger for something big and important and inspirational that they all can be involved in,"
Yep. All we need is a Supreme Leader.
What a stupid crock of s##t.
This from the guy who spent all of 2004 ranting how there was "two Americas",in other words the have and the have nots.
Now he talks about a "national community".
LOL.
"Democrats believe they can put Republicans on the defensive by articulating the public's sense of malaise and offering hope to erase it."
I believe that "sense of malaise" basically comes from not having much to worry about. We haven't been attacked since 9/11, the war in Iraq is hitting all measurable marks for success, the economy is chugging along, unemployment is very low (like 5%?) and people are just going about their lives.
It's not really malaise, it's just normal life, which, as usual, the Dems can't leave alone. But trust me, if they regain power, you can count on it ALL being "erased."
Triangulation only works when the marks (er, I mean voters)
don't know you're BS'ing them, and there's no alternative
media to point it out to them.
As Hillary seems to be discovering, those days are gone
(which doesn't mean she won't still confiscate the DNC
nomination, but she won't "win" it by fooling all her
targetted voter blocs).
I think it's more of a typo error. I corrected it:
"There is a hunger in AmericaDemocrats, a hunger for a sense of national community, a hunger for something big and important and inspirational that they all can be involved in,"
Two Americas again ?
Instead of testing themes like a car company tests cars with focus groups, Dems should first figure out what it is they stand for.
I see no sour mood in the country.
I see a sour mood among Democrat leaders and the media.
That didn't do Jimmah Carter any good. It just got Reagan elected instead.
(I suppose we shouldn't help these morons)
OH, YEAH DEMS, JUST TELL US HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO GIVE UP, AND WE'LL VOTE FOR YOU IN DROVES (snicker snicker).
I reject that because if you ask what is wrong about the track America is taking, what the right track should be or what do we do to get back on the right track the respondents can't agree as to an answer.
The answer to that question is effected by questions preceding that one and is subject to whether the respondent recently went to the doctor, bought gasoline, been accosted by an illegal or had a spat with their spouse.
IMHO: The RAT agitprop has driven that number down by their negative drone
LOL! The tribe has spoken!
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