Does the republican echo of “wag the dog”, “no war for Monica” mean anything to you.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14642

The last ELECTED President and First Lady we had was under attack the entire time he was in office.

Oh, wait, that didn’t happen.

I had faith in 2000, 2002 and 2004. What did I get for it? More of the same. I’d like to think there’s another Bill Clinton out there, and maybe it is Al Gore, but even as great as that would be – don’t you see there’s something functionally wrong with a party when it needs the political equivalent of Jesus to save it from damnation every four years? The conservative movement is a plug-in apparatus, a team of people willing to fight no matter who the top man is. The Democrats apparently can’t even run a primary campaign in Conneticut. Come on!

* raising the minimum wage
* ending tax breaks for the wealthy
* fixing medicare specifically and healthcare in general
* education
* getting the fuck out of Iraq

And the so-called “conservatives” in the republican party can campaign on on their lousy record, promise more of the same in addition to the following:
Staying in Iraq, til hell freezes over, even building permanet military bases thereEnding the “death tax” for millionaires and increasing the federal deficit by more tax cuts while working folks get crumbs and their children get the bill
Privitazing social securityStagnant wage levels with ever increasing gasoline pricesAttacking Iran with nuclear weapons

Democrats could be so lucky that the republicans were that brazen and stupid, rather than their usual cheap stunts.

factcheck, that’s so … September 11th, 2001! Are you also under the illusion we invaded Iraq to find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction? Can you not keep up with the Bush administration’s Programme of Bullshit?

Evil #1 terror guy dead. Rove skates. Bush travels to Iraq.

That’s a good week for Bush. And a GREAT week, for our troops…who deserve to feel good about themseleves and the job they’re doing.

Will it end the war sooner? I have my serious doubts. But this is a good week for Bush. Let’s get that out of the way, shall we?

Bill Clinton came out of nowhere in 1992. I had no frigging idea who the man was, sittiing across from Paul Tsongas. Did you?

Heck..I think Al Gore could upset the apple cart. A bit of a wild card. Kerry is just white noise the past month or two.

I really think, however, that the future of the Democratic party lies in the “new” blood….H. Clinton, Obama, Richardson, Edwards, to name a few.

All I’m saying is that you have to have a bit of faith. The 4 people I mention above….they’ve got their shit together. Faith.

JK

Talk radio is a lost cause altogether. It’s like going on a blind date, stag, for the Dems. With Air America and a few other venues they are able to mingle a bit, but it’s often in a beat bar near closing time. Not all that listen to the hate-mongers are righties, as some like me occasionally tune in to see what the latest talking points are. But, like the sun rising each morning it is guaranteed, based on what the issue is or what was said by the left the day before in response, there is going to be an all day down-dressing of “liberals” about to take place. Forget this dumb-downed following and those on FOX for that matter. They are lost souls who don’t turn elections. It’s a captive audience, and unless Turner or some other mogul buys Clear Channel, Westwood, etc. this is unfertile ground until more markets can be penetrated.

Similarly the entire south should be written off. The last election proved that we don’t need them anyhow to win an election. If the voting system allowed, Ohio would have turned the last election and a solid red south would have been left wondering how that strategy put them back in the bottom of the barrel where they belong. Just to see Zell Miller crawl back under his rock would be worth telling them to go pound salt.

The Dems, regardless of what venue they are in, have to hammer the same talking points no matter what the discuss is about. Most Republicans are really good at shifting the attention away from their weaknesses to their opponents weaknesses. Most Dems are MIA in shifting it right back in their face. Here’s an example of how it could go:

Host: There is about to be a vote on another $90 billion for the Iraq war, do you plan on voting for it?

Dem: I will (won’t) vote for it, but we have to stop throwing money at this problem at some point in time because with Republicans in charge our deficits and national debt are out of control. We’re mortgaging our children’s future to the Chinese (bogeymen help).

Rep: We have to approve this spending so our troops have the means to defeat terrorism. We don’t like the current fiscal situation, but we have a war to fight that has got to be won.

Dem: Wait a second, let’s not forget that this was a war of choice. We failed to get the bad guys in Afghanistan due this distraction, and now we have a whole new group in Iraq, folks like Zarkawi who were nobodies before the Republicans decided that pre-emtive war was the way to go. A bad situation was made much, much worse.

Rep: Well we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to face them here. The right decision was made, and we have the terrorists on the run. We can’t afford to let Iraq slip into the hands of our enemies.

Dem: First of all we never had to fight them here, mainly because they slipped under the Republican radar on 9/11, and second we have no better idea who they are over there than we did before the invasion of Iraq. Especially after all of the “fixing” the Republicans have been doing since they control all aspects of our government. Do you just want to kill everyone over there? Is that the Republican plan, as Cal Thomas just proposed in a recent column?

Rep: No, we want to get those who mean us harm, one at a time.

Dem: Republicans are causing more harm than they are fixing, and their tired old war plans just aren’t working. All war all the time is not the answer.

Host: What would you suggest?

Dem: Here is where a plan is needed. To first admitting that what we did was wrong would go a long way to let the world know we’re serious. Then beg, heck, even pay if we have to for the UN to put a different face on things as we pull out. We have to show the Iraqis that we don’t have designs on their country and that we have their back by pulling out to the perimeters as Kerry and Murtha suggest. (It’s only a start, but a policy can be drawn around this.)

Who on the left do you know that could carry this conversation? Not many!

Dems have to attack Repubs at their every “perceived” strength. Strong on defense, make it common knowledge that they throw money at the military with no accountability, screw the troops at the margins, and start unecessary wars and then conduct them as poorly as can be imagined.

Do the sane with fiscal responsibility, values via corruption, even attack their faith every single day by simply interjecting a simple phrase:

If Republicans think that Jesus Christ would support (insert entire Republican agenda) then I must have a defective bible.

Hold their feet to a fire so hot that it burns your hands in the process, but they won’t be standing when your done.

All fine ideas I support 100%

I’m sorry, I can’t tell if you are trying to be serious or ironic. The last 6 years have completely buggered my irony detector. If you’re serious, well fine. The dems should run on those and the GOPers should run on the opposite an we will see. If you’re being ironic, then ha ha – that’s a good one.

FDR

If you can’t win elections by stating your core beliefs and illustrating how the differ from the other guy, then you don’t deserve to win elections. Lots and lots of people think the US is off track right now. I believe the Dems can win if they run a core values kind of campaign and state exactly what separates them from the GOPers and what they would do to get the country back on track. They need a broad based approach. They’ll never win basing campaigns on single issues.

They believe in

* raising the minimum wage
* ending tax breaks for the wealthy
* fixing medicare specifically and healthcare in general
* education
* getting the fuck out of Iraq