Chairman Dean's 2006-2008 strategy

[Perky]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEMOCRATS?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-02-23-02-36

Dean said Democrats must prove to people in conservative and swing districts that they can earn the voters' trust.

"Elections are not mandates. Elections are power being loaned to politicians for a two-year period by the voters of this country," Dean said. "Now it's our job to earn it back again in '08."

That approach is critical if Democrats are to build on their majority in Congress and retake the White House in 2008, said Dean, who said Democrats did well in November because they appealed to all types of voters.

"George Bush made a huge mistake by representing half of America, while treating the rest of us with contempt," Dean said. "We need to reach out to everybody whether they agree with us or not."

I agree. If we work on kitchen table issues while the GOP attempts to push an agenda to try and recapture/reinvigorate the social conservative base, it will look like they are pandering.

Make college more affordable.
Take incremental though signigicant steps toward Universal Health Care
Stop delaying hard choices on Social Security

Take majoritarian views to undercut the GOP in '08. Force them to go to the right if they are going to not cooperate.

Do significant oversight and investigation designed to humiliate the GOP (IMHO, unless there is a majoritatian grass roots call for impeachment, it should not happen.

We need to understand that while the majority of americans are liberal on the issues. that that does not necessarily translate into support for liberal solutions. Our house majority is slim and very diverse. We need to get things accomplished and that does not happen without significant party discipine and being able to speak with one voice.

[Perky]

1. kick

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Wise words

Dean's strategy was, I feel, vital in our huge win in '06. His words should be heeded not only because it will help us in '08, but because it is the correct thing to do.

[IndyOp]

3. Kitchen table issues & Bold Moves.

We've got to push on our fellow citizens until they DEMAND that this Congress take Bold Action to end Iraq War, to provide health care, to end free trade agreements that are destroying our economy, to stop employment of illegal immigrants and to bolster our unions.

If the Dems don't make some Bold Moves, *novel* moves US citizens will be disgusted.

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[BeFree]

4. First One Hundred Hours

We need to kick pub ass. We need to hit them so hard they don't know what hit 'em.

We will never have as much power as we will have in the first 100 hours and the call for impeachment should be the first bill talked about.

Lets not get all nice and squirmy.... lets hope our critters are mean and hard and issue a blow to the corrupt anti-democratic pubs as hard as the law allows. We need to crush them and make them wish they hadn't been re-elected.

[KAT119]

5. Howard Power-love him!!

[Kolesar]

6. Dr. Dean does not mention climate change

Was that not one of the issues that the public thought they were voting for when they voted Democratic last month??