Excuses for losing. You read them daily on blogs like Daily Kos and web forums like Democratic Underground.
"California's not representitive because Gray Davis was really unpopular and Arnold is a celebrity. Plus, he's really liberal!"
"Kentucky doesn't count because the governor got caught with his pants down."
"Mississippi doesn't count because it's really a red state anyway."
"Louisiana doesn't count...well...I don't know why. But it doesn't."
Enough excuses.
How many elections do we have to lose before it becomes a trend? We have to admit that we are getting our asses kicked. The Republicans are out-raising AND out-organizing us. Read my
diary entry from earlier today about their GOTV efforts. More to the point, they are tatically running rings around us. WTF gives?
The first step is admitting we've got a problem. The left-wing echo chamber has given us a false sense of reality where everyone realizes Republican policies are a sham and politicians are lying, schemeing bastards. That may be true, but just because we're right doesn't mean we're going to win.
I don't know what we're going to do about this. I don't know if we CAN do anything about it.
Now's the part where I say something trite like "...because we can't afford to lose." Well, I was just looking through some of my old blog entries from Novemeber 2002 that said the same thing. Paul Wellstone had just died. We knew we were going to go to a needless war with Iraq. And we lost anyway.
I hope somebody's got a plan, because I sure don't know what to do.