I wasn't sure whether this deserves its' own diary or not, but no one else has commented on it in the
Howard Dean on Harry Reid's Move diary, and I didn't see this one listed in the previous
More Democratic Slogans diary either (the closest anyone came to it was Thomas Kalinowski's "Had Enough?", which is also pretty good).
In any event, I think that the PERFECT 2006 Democratic Party slogan was just unveiled in Dean's letter earlier this evening:
Enough is enough and we're ready to lead.
In fact, I think this may actually BE the official slogan--Dean's letter uses the phrase "enough is enough" no less than three times throughout the letter, and it fits perfectly with Reid's move.
Personally, I love it. It speaks to the growing frustration, disgust and discontent brewing in 60% or more of the nation. At the same time, it effectively (in my view) pulls the rug out from under the "Dems complain but don't act" meme.
In a nutshell, in the past 5 years, the GOP has f*cked things up SO BADLY on EVERY CONCEIVABLE LEVEL, in EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT, that the Dems would HAVE to do a better job of managing things, due to the bar having been set so incredibly low. Christ, the Republicans have done such a crappy job, that the law of averages says that even a random sampling of Dems would be bound to do better.
Of course, while this happens to be the truth, it's not exactly high praise--"We'll do better 'cus we sure as hell couldn't do worse" doesn't exactly inspire confidence. And Dean's "angry" image isn't going away regardless of what he or we do, so we might as well use it to our advantage.
So, I say, "Enough is enough" is the perfect way of focusing all of these themes--incompetence vs. competence, childishness vs. maturity, making messes vs. cleaning them up, and anger vs. focusing that anger into positive results--into a single, simple, easy-to-relate-to slogan.