[ILS21R]

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, Democrat of Michigan, said that in order to be competitive with Republicans, Democrats had to have a message that was "strong and strongly pro-work, pro-responsibility, pro-duty, pro-service, pro-child, pro-seniors."

They already have that message Jen. We don't believe them.

BTW you're out in a couple of years. I'm sick of living in a blue state.

[AndyJackson]

In order to be competitive with Republicans, Democrats had to have a message that was "strong and strongly pro-work, pro-responsibility, pro-duty, pro-service, pro-child, pro-seniors.

Some how this still has the distinct ring of more nanny-state socialism take from everybody and hire the Washington elites and fund the UN to me. How about some mention of personal freedom. You know, just to be left alone without having to apply for a permit and pay user fees and hassle with a bunch of government bureaucrats for the right - you know - to sit in a hammock and drink beer. There is more to life than some policy wonk's nuanced programs and that is what is wrong with Rats. We don't love them, we don't like them. We just want them out of our face. We don't want a different set of programs. After 50 years of these technocrats monkeying with programs we know we can't get better programs. Government is incapable of it. All we are left with is fewer programs, and that is what we want, along with fewer elite liberal intellectuals to try to explain it all to us.