One message the democrats should communicate

[rniel]

"We value work"

Simple direct and true. Goes along with everyone I believe. I think I heard this on the daily show last night when John Edwards was on. Of course he explained it with too many words. We need to keep it simple. What I mean by "we value work" is that people who work for a living but still live in poverty. Maybe they deserve a fair shake from our system. Republicans value "capital" we value "work". The word "work" should be used when referring to democrats. the word "capital" should be used when referring to them.

Conservatives have taken that frame away from us over the years with their elitist (city folk) vs. regular people (rural folk) frame.

[madame defarge]

1. Here's another message...

Can You Say "A Failed Presidency"?

Keep it simple say the message gurus.

OK. What are we looking at in Washington DC?

ANSWER: "A FAILED PRESIDENCY"

From this moment forward, don't talk about anything having to do with current events, politics, gasoline, hurricanes, the war in Iraq, the ever-swelling federal deficit, the ever-lengthening list of members of Congress sweating in their offices waiting for the subpoenas to arrive, the flunkies scattered through every branch of the government who saw what happened when the spotlight settled on the equally unqualified Michael Brown, day in, day out, on every blog you visit, in every email you send, repeat, repeat, repeat: "A FAILED PRESIDENT."

Three little words, one simple frame that covers all of the sins: the sins of omission, all the things that George Bush didn't do, like listen to the brave generals who told him we would need a much larger force to occupy Iraq, like pay even the slightest attention to the destitute and the dying in New Orleans while he flew off to a fundraiser, like acting on his promise to fire anyone who was shown to be involved in the Plame scandal....and the sins he did do, like nominating a completely unqualified person to the nation's highest court, a crony who will undoubtedly refuse to recuse herself from sitting in judgement as this administration's brightest and best troup from courtroom to courtroom, desperately seeking to stay out of jail, like lying over and over and over to the nation about an alleged connection between Hussein and the suicide plane bombers of 9/11, and of lying about Iraq's nuclear program, and all the other lies, and stealing the American people blind in what is probably the largest involuntary transfer of wealth in the history of the world...

I could go on, but what is the point. It's all there in those 3 little words: a failed presidency.

P.S. Tone control: somber is in, gleeful is out. Stay out of the vengeance business, however tempting it may seem. Deuteronomy 32:35 KJV: "To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste." No one wants any president to fail, when that failure means the infliction of so much unnecessary pain, suffering, and death.
http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2005/10/can_you_say_fai.html#comments

[rniel]

2. and

We also need to tie that into the 2006 elections. We need to link every one of those in congress with an "R" by my name as ENABLERS of this "failed presidency."

[madame defarge]

3. Agreed (& kicked) n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

4. "GOP - A Culture of Corruption"

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[madame defarge]

5. Another great phrase!!! Repeat often!!! n/t

[madame defarge]

6. BTW, NPR said it yesterday...

They've picked up the meme.

"this sounds dangerously like what we heard in 1994" from former Republican congressman Vin Weber. " "Republicans had better wake up and pay attention to what's being said"

Here's the episode... sounds an awful lot like they've just caught up with the blogosphere...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4948397

Also read somewhere (here?) yesterday that Nora O'Donnell also said something similar... There is hope.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. So did the DNC, thanks to Howard Dean !!

Go to:
www.dnc.org
then look to the right ("Republican Culture of Corruption") and click.

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