What happens when
Michael Schiavo shows up to support Congressional Candidate, Peggy Lamm? This fine family shows up to show us the real face of the GOP...adorably insane. Democrats could learn two important lessons from this event, and the Lamm race.
A few months ago I got into a conversation with a friend from Colorado about Peggy Lamm. He assured me that she had "No chance of winning," and played up her "outsider" status. Of course, this only draws me to her more. My friend directed me to a CO Democratic politics "insider," who further assured me that the DC establishment was firmly behind Ed Perlmutter, which only goes to prove that the Beltway Boys, with their perpetual losing convential wisdom are of no use to the Party. Lamm is the clear choice and best chance of Democrats stealing another seat in November. Lesson 1: Don't listen to "Party Insiders."
Michael Schiavo is correct that we should work at "keeping the right-wing agenda at bay," but Dems keep missing an important oppurtunity with these Wingnuts. If two out of a thousand user-submitted videos to MoveOn.org equate Bush's version of fascism with the Nazis, somehow all Democrats, or "liberals," are radicals and out of touch. Yet,the GOP can shutdown Congress for a week because a man wants to take his brain-dead wife off of life-support, and the country still uses the benign word, "Conservative" to describe them. I don't know if it is possible to re-brand the word in the same way the GOP turned "Liberal" into a synonym of "Radical," but certainly a much greater majority of Conservatives are out of touch with mainstream America. Anyone who calls themself, "Republican" or "Conservative," should have to defend the actions of all Wing-Nuttery (Anne Coulter) in the same way I have to defend every word uttered by Michael Moore. Lesson 2: Don't paint the radicals as out of touch fringe elements; paint them as what they are: the people that control the GOP and at present, the entire US Government. Normal people should be embarrassed to admit supporting this agenda.
More Peggy...Less of the Crazies!