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I'd like to be inspired today (it's snowing in Denver). Too often I see these defeatist and doom & gloom threads, lamenting about our chances because the big media echo chamber has already anointed Chimpy another 4 years, before we even get out of the starting gate. Yet I see very little posts on the positive side of our chances, and even less participation in those threads.
So let me examine why the Republicans win, when their agenda is good only for 22% of the electorate. That's the number they won with in 2002. No, it was hardly a mandate. remember they barely won. An extra 2 seats in the Senate is not a landslide.
They (Repugs) have belief and confidence in their cause!... How more obvious can it be? They have adopted a belief system that their cause is just and nobody is going to stand in their way. Consequently, that absolute surety of their beliefs, as wrong as they are, and their confidence that the majority of America agrees with them, like it or not, translates into votes. Think about it. We see the trogs paraded onto the shout shows and they speak in platitudes, can't defend their positions with actual argument, they just shout the challengers down. They never detract from the inevitability of their righteousness. Aside from John McCain in the primaries, you never hear a Repug dissing another Repug, explaining away a faulty position, apologizing for any platform they might have, or backtracking on a questionable agenda their putting through.Dismissing them as just lockstep automatons misses the fact that this confidence is appealing to much of casual voters out there.
It's this one aspect of the Repugs that I envy above all others. We need to adopt that kind of confidence. I'm not saying adopt their lies, and simplistic ideologies, but their beliefs, their arrogance, their confidence, their surety of their cause, and their morale. We need to do the same thing.
Never explain ourselves!When the question of gay marriage comes up, we state our position ( pro-civil unions, at least right now) with absolute moral clarity, and no mushy seeking of approval from the electorate...we DEMAND that approval, or we question the fair-mindedness of the dis-approving.
Once the primaries are over, never criticize any Democrat until the election is OVER! And especially don't criticize (publicly) the next President, whoever he may be. You know their not going to criticize the Chimp, so why should we put up with that for our own candidate?
Talk as if we already have it in the bag. what, do you think people are going to remember, much less care what you said 11 months ago? Fugaddabboudit! You come forward and say, without flinching or any sign of uncertainty, that Kerry/Dean/Clark/whoever is going to not only win this election, but he will take 43 states in the EC. Regardless of whether or not it really happens is irrelevant, the key is to display such a confidence, and surety in your candidate (Senate, House, Local too) that it rubs off on those fence sitters, and they'll start to believe it too, and hopefully seek out some campaign information, which further bolsters their support.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the "majority". Americans love the underdog. They love the man who stands up to being attacked, and they love watching him fight back. Americans love self confidence in a person, and the convictions in his beliefs. If we look and act like we're winners, then they will respond positively, and just like it worked for the Repugs, it will work for us.
Happy new President's Year!
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