The DNC is meeting this weekend

[Catchawave]

Here's a good OpEd by Donna Brazille:

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Hook, Line and Sinker
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/08/opinion/08brazile.html?th

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Democrats also need to think long term. Reinventing the wheel every two years, as we do now, puts our activists at a disadvantage. If we're going to have a chance in 2008, we must start updating voter files, working monthly with our volunteers and cultivating promising local and statewide candidates.
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[Lost4words]

1. She is a big part of the problem! I cant stand that DINO F her!

Democrats like Donna Brazille are the reason all this shit is happening IMO! For me she is up there with Lieberman. Join the pukes bitch!

[Racenut20]

2. I can't wait !!!!!!

For the new book "How to Win Elections" co-written by Donna Brazille and Mary Beth Cahill. The forward written by Bob Shrum.

[MaineDem]

3. Actually, it's not the entire DNC

The meeting in Orlando is for state Party Chairs, I believe.

And we certainly do need to start NOW. As much as I'm not a great admirer of Ms Brazille, I do agree with her on that.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. Oh God, now they are going to "cultivating" candidates

You know what that means....stepford Candidates.

Why not just cultivate your voter files and give the grassroots candidates some financial support and some decent tools to fight with?

[demwing]

5. Regarding that quote -

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Democrats also need to think long term. Reinventing the wheel every two years, as we do now, puts our activists at a disadvantage. If we're going to have a chance in 2008, we must start updating voter files, working monthly with our volunteers and cultivating promising local and statewide candidates.
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I agree with what Brazille is saying, but I doubt if we agree on the definition of "promising local and statewide candidates"

[LiberalEsto]

6. Oh, yeah, let's sit down and update our files

while democracy goes up in flames!
Somebody hand her a fiddle.

[emulatorloo]

7. Donna Brazile is buddies with Rove and Norquist - see Feb 2003 NYT

Here's a snip from NYT site. . .if you do a little googling you will find the full article reproduced elselwhere on the net.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20814FD39590C728EDDAB0894DB404482

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NATIONAL DESK | February 21, 2003, Friday

Frustrated Democrat Makes Friends in G.O.P.

Two years ago, Donna Brazile, then Al Gore's campaign manager, was engaged in daily combat with Karl Rove, then George W. Bush's top campaign strategist.

Today, they chirpily exchange e-mail, chat on the phone and write letters, indulging in their shared zeal for the inner workings of politics.

"I like her a lot," said Mr. Rove, now ensconced in the West Wing as President Bush's chief political adviser.

Ms. Brazile, a committed Democrat who was the first black woman to manage a presidential campaign, has built similar relationships with other Republicans, like Grover Norquist, an influential conservative strategist. And her coziness with them comes as she is deeply frustrated with her own party for what she calls years of taking African-Americans for granted and for failing to organize for elections in a coherent way.

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[talk hard]

8. Donna's old school.

Damn. So many people here are spewing venom at Dems instead of where it belongs. At the Republicans.

Donna Brazile is an old time Democrat. She has worked her ass off for the Democratic Party. I happen to really like her. She is gracious in certain venues which may be construed by some here as being a douchebag, but I have seen her in others and she's a wicked righteous activist.

Just pray Howard Dean gets the chairmanship of the DNC. We need to expand the tent, not step on others as the DLC did to progressives. We aren't going to make any progress cutting off half of the party.

Howard Dean will put the bite back in the argument - with the Republicans that is. And progressives will be heard.