For all of our anger, disgust and collective kvetching over our party's unceremonious surrender on the issue of meaningful benchmarks, timetables and redeployment, we, too, seem to be lacking something meaningful: a plan to respond.
To be sure, blog rants -- as impassioned and entertaining as they might be -- aren't a response; they're an outlet.
Those of you who know me know that I live my life in the world of message management, marketing, advertising and public relations. I invent brands for a living, and I've diaried often about the fall of the Republican brand and the Democrats' perpetual inability to muster one.
But we here in the netroots do have a brand, and it centers around action, creativity, mass assembly and unpoliticized truth. With that as our starting point, please allow me to offer some talking points to get us singing a common tune, and one participation-required action plan to get the song heard.
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