Howdy. Please excuse my getting political today, but the recent elections were pretty dang important and I don't want them to pass without dishing my completely useless opinion on them. Don't worry, we'll be back to stupid posts about games on Friday. As a sneak peak, me likey Gears of War!
Ahem, yes, where was I? Right. Yay Democrats, you won! Or is that the Republicans lost? Hard to say, and as of right now, it really doesn't matter, however you can bet your sweet bippy those particulars will be pretty damn important 2 years from now when it comes time to pick a new president.
My personal opinion is that the traditional conservatives and Reagan era Republicans just put the Republican party on time out until the party can stop acting like assholes and play nice. Now, if the next presidential election were a reelection campaign, I wouldn't be too optimistic about the GOP changing up what it does, however it isn't, so rest assured that the Democratic nominee won't be the only person running an "I'm not Bush" campaign. If you don't think that a nominee would attempt to distance themselves from the previous president from the same party, allow me to introduct you to Mr. Gore. Mr. Gore, the Democrats. Democrats, Mr. Gore. This being the case, it is vitally important that you, as a party, start figuring out just who the hell you are and what the hell you stand for, independent of who is running against you.
Given that you have 2 years to do this, I wouldn't say that it's insurmountable, however you do need to stop being so goddamn afraid of how the Republicans portray you. Granted, now is probably the best time to be portrayed as the opposite of the GOP, however Americans have notoriously short memories, and it won't be long before people start buying into the same old GOP bullshit about Dems being soft on terror and anti-freedom and blah, blah, blah. You need to come up with a platform that addresses the salient criticisms of the Republicans, ignores the inflammatory bullshit ones, and more importantly, gives the average voter an understanding of what they're voting for when they vote Democrat. You've bloodied the bully's nose at this point, do those few things and you'll kick the living shit out of him.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty happy at what went down yesterday, and with the recent stepping down of Rumsfeld, I'm approaching gleeful, I just want to make sure that 2 years from now we're not where we were 2 years ago, which is to say watching from the sidelines as the country gets reamed. So, enjoy your victory, put the President on mute during his conference call with you so that you can all snigger and make faces, but when Congress reconvenes in January, don't take anything for granted and get to fucking work.
Kisses,
Brandon
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I'm interested to hear what "the plan" is. So far, I haven't heard it one from them, except of course to leave in six months. Believe me, we all want this war to end, but we can't let those men and women to have died in vain. I say let em fight they way they've been trained and not be reading freaking Miranda rights to every terrorist they catch. They have PHOTOS of the man believed to have placed the IED my husband was hurt in. Why? Because he was caught before. And released. And almost killed my husband. And DID kill and burn and maim dozens of Marines and Iraqis. I don't like to talk about politics and if it weren’t for this war I probably wouldn't be. It's just too important that we finish this the right way.
Exactly. Don't screw it up guys, you have been given a second chance. I would totally agree that the Democratic party stands for next to nothing and rolls over at the word boo from the Republicans. Case and Point Kerry and the most recent scandal with him.
Likewise, the extreme right wing Republicans need to look in their own self righteous mirror and see their agenda of homophobia and exclusion does not work. After all, what does it say that Mark Foley was in their midst?
Thus speaks the non-partisan reader...
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