Out of My Mind

Why Democrats Lose
By Robert Parry
June 7, 2006

At dinner a few weeks ago, a well-placed Republican political operative was oozing confidence about GOP prospects in the November elections, not because the voters were enamored of George W. Bush but because the Democrats and liberals had done so little to improve their ability to reach the public with their message.

By contrast, he described to me a highly sophisticated Republican system for pouncing on Democratic “bad votes” and verbal gaffes and distributing the information instantaneously to a network of pro-Republican media outlets that now operates down to the state, district and local levels.

The rest is here.

Myself, never thought it was rocket science.

First, the Dems have to give up this mid-twentieth century thing of being a party of conflicting beliefs such as the party of integrationists and segregationists, both, of war-time leadership and the anti-war movement. It's OK at times but kind of makes the concept of a single position on an issue difficult.

Lookee at Iraq. Them: 9/11. Us: Duh....

Great.

Second: Slick Willie showed us the way and the DVD is still availeable.

I speak of the War Room. They pull the crap Parry discusses above, we're ready. What you can call (if you're old enough) fast, fast, fast relief.

The wingnuts have whole network or web of this but we...? The DNC doesn't even have a meaningful system set up.

A lot of this is semantics and communication. Our communication sucks, only in part because we also unsure what to say.

Of course, there's also the issue of the corruption of our pols, but that's another issue for another post, another day....