Ways to endear yourself to your brand new political party:
Step 1: Make sure that you’re registered in the correct party this time around.
Step 2: Get out and meet the committee members of your new party. After all, you’ve never carried a petition or joined your local committee before... you’re going to need a lot of help from them.
Step 3: Spend $150,000 on a Washington P.R. firm to go on the offense and then defend your lack of a record against actual activists.
Step 4: Insult the House leadership of your new party in one of your very first quotes to hit the presses.
Step 5: Retract Step 4 and franticly back pedal on your statements.
Step 6: Drop out of the Congressional race.
Step 7: Run for County Executive and prove to your new party that you really are one of them by self funding a difficult race for the sake of the party, not your ego.
Step 8: Become a party hero.
Where as Eric Massa begins almost every speaking engagement with praise for the achievements of the new Democratic majority stating that "the leadership of the new majority in Congress has gotten more done in the first 100 hours of the new Congress than the Tom Delay Republicans accomplished in the last 100 months," David Nachbar unmistakably condemns the Democrats with his implications in a recent New York Times article:
"People are tired of playing party lines and they just want people that give answers,"
It’s rather evident that Nachbar does not think that Congresswoman Slaughter has given any answers nor has the new Speaker of the House. If Nachbar is going to win the hearts and minds of Democrats he had better start complementing them instead of insulting them as he saw fit to do in this recent article. It is increasingly obvious why there is a growing wave of endorsement in the wings for a candidate who not only gave clear thought out answers but who also took the fight to Kuhl on his own home turf.
Nachbar would do well to remember that Randy Kuhl and the rubberstamp Republican Party are his opponents, not Speaker Pelosi and Congresswoman Slaughter. Nachbar, only recently registered as a Democrat, is seeking the Democratic Parties nomination but he does not seem to have stomach for it. He is running into criticism for being a Dem newbie and maybe this is how he is compensating for it.
Mr. Nachbar, if you or your surrogates are out there, please do the right thing. You know deep down that a rich Pittsford Executive can not win a mostly rural district such as NY-29. If you run, you’re only helping Randy Kuhl, and you’ll become unelectable afterward.