We, the rank-and-file Democrats, are to blame for our leader's blunders [View All]

[brentspeak]

Due to our failures or our apathy, the Democratic leaders in both the House and the Senate are in an almost powerless minority. Now they watch everything they say for fear that the very slightest slip will be magnified by the RW echo chamber, they have so little power, so little infrastructure of support.

While we should have been setting up shop in "red states", creating a physical presence in those parts for the Democratic party, we've spent too much time blogging, arguing with one another or with Freepers on the internet, or chasing the latest bit of tantalizing clues about Bush's Nat'l Guard service or Santorum's latest stupid quote -- things that NOBODY outside our little circle will ever know about.

Meanwhile, the GOP has successfully made themselves known in Small Town USA, a place that rightfully should be Democrat territory (and once was). The Republicans maintain a highly organized presence in Middle America 365 days a year. But what do we do? We waste time blogging from New York, or San Fran, or Madison, or some such places.

There are Democrats in Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, that have to fight the Alamo every year because the Democratic Party -- and its rank-and-file members in the Blue States -- have apparently written their states off.

I include myself in this circle of shame, and I'm frustrated that there is nothing set up to enable us Blue Staters to once and for all help our Red State Democratic brethren regain their states -- and thus win back our country.

Tell you one thing -- it ain't gonna be done by blogging.