Dear Chairman Dean:
We need one, nationwide TV ad to nationalize this Congressional election. We've all read the stories about how this election could turn into a democratic tsunami. But where's the national message? Where's the one, simple nationwide appeal to "close the deal" or to "pull the trigger"?
We need one ad. One message to go out nationwide, to link each and every GOP candidate with an anchor chain to their party's miserable failure. To tell the voters it's time to throw the bums out, everywhere, and give the democrats a chance to show what we can do for them.
That's a job for you, Chairman Dean. Nancy Pelosi can't do it. Harry Reid can't do it. None of the local candidates can do it on their own. You can.
Right now we have half a thousand local elections with local candidates striving to get their messages out in the face of an abominable record by the republican party. Those candidates are facing their own tidal wave of negative TV ads by republicans, and the commitment of the vast republican war chest and GOTV machine.
Their GOP adversaries are hunkering down, trying to run as far as possible from their party's own "leadership" and record. In the closing weeks of this campaign, we need one message to crystallize the frame for the November election.
Introduce the ad. Let some of our "fighting dems" introduce themselves. Let some of the former republicans who switched parties tell the voters that. You could ask people if they like how things are going in Iraq, the economy; or the culture of corruption in Congress; how Congress butted in with its religious agenda in the Terry Shiavo case. Tell them if they don't like it, it's time to vote democratic. However you do it, please just do it!
One ad, Chairman Dean. The whole country needs to hear it in the final two weeks before election day. Please.
UPDATE: In another diary, devilstower has pledged $1000 towards a nationwide "Vote Democratic" ad. I'm too cheap to match that, but I will add on my own $100 to any dedicated buy. I guess at this point it's up to the powers that be to decide.