this is cross posted on my xanga journal: www.xanga.com/katfish321
Thursday, June 23, 2005
this shall be cross posted at Dailykos.com tomorrow...
I love H. Dean right now. He speaks as a normal american and not like that shit bush spews out of his mouth. "First we're going to call the Republican's B.S." he said that on The Daily Show...
Dean is definitely the way the party needs to go. I want to go back and read the transcript. this is wonderful. I wish he'd been our pres... I wouldn't be so scared of Thomas being sent over to Iraq again... which I worry about EVERY SINGLE DAY...
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Dems need to take his message and run, like they've never run before... And no, I'm not saying it's a perfect message, but who's come up with something better? I love DEAN, but I support Biden and I know that's a conflict of interest but, you know... Biden and others are the history of the party, you can't forget your history while you move on. I agree that Biden needs to be prodded, but it needs to be done in a constructive way, to get more on board with Dean's message. I also agree that Dean needs to improve his message, tweak it if you will. Dean is the head of the party, he's not THE party and it's now Dean's job to be able to bring both the old school together with the new school. He could use our help, but bashing Biden and others is not the way to go about it... we've got to be able to internally be diplomatic in order to be diplomatic as a party... but sometimes being diplomatic also means we have to get tough, it means we've gotta be able to have a spine, as Dean said tonight on TDS. But we have to be able to find a happy medium, we've gotta find a common ground and work together as party if we're going to overthrow the repugs and get the neocons who would rather take rights away then protect rights we already have--out of that city and out of office.
Also, this has been discussed before, but regardless of voting record, a Dem in office is one less true blood repug in office. I'm not saying that going after people isn't worth it...and won't help to some extent but we can't alienate the past just to push forward to the future. The history will come back to bite us if we ignore it (HI, IRAQ WAR PART 1 1/2...)
So let's agree to disagree and start working together because a house divded can never win against a house that supports comments like those made be Rove(r).