Democrats continue to focus on re-tooling their messaging. Donna Brazile, Gore-Lieberman’s former campaign manager, admits that Democrats are on the confusing side of abortion:
“Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing babies.”
While you are fixing that little misunderstanding you might want to explain it in the context of stem cell research as well.
It looks like the Blogger Democrats are mobilizing and calling for a revolution. Some of the lead-off commentary has been by the veterans of the Dean campaign and associates of Kerry (to the extent his campaign allowed them to participate).
Particular interest should be paid to the dialogue between Joe Trippi and Dave Winer as well as the deal being structured between Nicco Mele and Dave Winer.
Winer is the a dynamo technologist (e.g., Radio Userland, RSS, and BloggerCon fame and infamy) with a flare for activism, Trippi was Howard Dean’s notable and innovative campaign manager and lately MSNBC blog-vangelist, and Mele was Dean’s webmaster a smart and diverse crew of activist, but that may be what shipwrecked Dean and ultimately Kerry. The lack of cohesive and focused message further dissipated by personalities that were competing with the actual candidates that fettered these campaigns may be reconstituting in this alliance.
The threat is certainly viable as demonstrated in recent blog/election post mortems, larger considerations of blogs transforming government, and Trippi’s specific dialogue about organizing for 2008:
TRIPPI: I think that, whoever is the nominee in 2008 is likely to be the nominee of a brain-dead party unless we start building, rebuilding this thing from the ground up with the grassroots and actually get some new ideas in this party and people who are going to stand up for what the Democratic principles are.
I would propose that we on the Right begin to organize in the blogosphere in a like manner and in the interest of a good fight I would propose the following to Winer, Trippi, and Mele:
Consider analysis of why you lost;
Focus your message, remember diversity is great at creating ideas and solutions, but without prioritization it just sounds like a roaring crowd of raving lunatics;
And if you are going to start a revolution bring a Leader!
Good luck guys and may the best Party win.
There has been great knashing of teeth and prognostication of a Republican coup d’etat. Relax, we won, but we can’t turn the US into a Republican monarchy. The last time I strolled through my pocket Constitution there were lots of provisions for checks and balances of power.
Our wonderfully bureaucratic, inefficient, and cumbersome government executes precisely as planned by our amazingly visionary forefathers. It is very adept at maintaining equilibrium by creating establishment that is representative of the nation. The Christian Science Monitor does a nice job of analyzing this point.
Thoughtful opportunities via Oxblog to extend the Olive Branch across a bitter aisle.
I told you the campaign for 2008 is being shaped now. Here are the Democrats mobilizing. Good for us (Republican’s) they are still fractured and neither mentioned DNC candidate will unify the party.
dKosopedia does a nice job of blogging the process of American political organization.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Liberals are discussing Cheney’s package: Political Wire, Scripting News
