Reply #264: Winning is everything... [View All]

[Irreverend IX]

But (at least at the national level) the DLC doesn't produce that many true victories. They slip a few people into high positions, but they get hung up on playing ball with the Repugs and end up selling short whatever power they may have gained. They "win" by sucking up and compromising, while Republicans win through scorched-earth bulldozing of the opposition. If Democrats want to truly win, it'll take more than compromises and empty promises.

Democrats need to right with bare-toothed, savage aggression. Blast-fax the press outlets, ridicule and humiliate Republicans at every turn, and drop a few hints that Joe Fundy who's up for election this year may have had illegitimate children by his maid. Republicans give no quarter and take all the power they can get and then some, and we won't beat them until we fight the same way. Somewhere out there is a liberal with more charisma than Reagan, and we need to grab him and groom him for the Presidency. Somewhere out there are liberals more devious than Rove, and we'll need all the nasty tricks they can dream up to throw at the right wing. We all know the media are whores, so Democrats need to take the role of National Pimp and beat them into submission. If America's workers and thinkers and middle class see that the party who's supposed to stand up for them is actually doing something for a change, they'll rally behind us and eject the GOP from office forever.