I can't watch this trainwreck anymore.
The Dems need to STOP running away from health care, financial reform, the stimulus, etc. They need to STOP running away from Pelosi and Obama. In fact, they need to have Pelosi and Obama out there campaigning for everyone. They need to put Pelosi and Obama in TV ads talking about their great leadership. They need to talk about what a great thing HCR was. They need to talk about how much the stimulus helped. Basically, the Dems should be (and should have been) loud and proud about everything the Republicans are attacking them on.
This Congress and administration have accomplished an incredible amount in just two years. They stabilized the economy. They enacted health care reform. They ended the Iraq war. All major issues which the American people elected Democrats to tackle in 2008.
The Dems need to have some guts and actually be proud of these accomplishments and be proud of their leaders. The whole Republican strategy is to try to get people (including the Democratic Party itself) to believe that Democratic accomplishments & leaders are liabilities. Why? Because they're threatened: They know these Dem accomplishments are historic, and they know Dem leaders, especially Speaker Pelosi, have been REALLY EFFECTIVE at pushing through a Democratic agenda and being SUCCESSFUL.
The more the Dems run from their accomplishments and their leaders, and the more they try to sound like Republicans, the more they feed into the impression that they've done something wrong, that they "overstepped," that they were "too radical," and that's exactly what the Republicans want. That's exactly the picture Republicans want to paint. The Dems need to stand proudly behind their leaders and what they've accomplished, because they've done a hell of a lot of great things that the American people elected them to do.
The Dems need to have to STOP being weak and playing into the Republican meme for once. If the Dems didn't pass the stimulus or HCR, the Republicans would be criticizing them for being ineffective and not doing anything. With hard work and great leadership, they actually got a lot done. It's FREAKING MIND BOGGLING to think that Dems have let Republicans pressure them into being afraid of mentioning Pelosi/Obama/Reid, and being afraid of mentioning HCR, the stimulus package, and other SUCCESSES. The Dems deserve to lose this election for the utter fickleness and weakness they've shown.