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Confessions of a frustrated blogger
Over at The Reaction, co-blogger Creature offers up some confessions in response to Senator Feingold’s censure resolution. He’s not terribly happy with the Democrats.
See here.
4 Responses to “Confessions of a frustrated blogger”
Nobody is happy with the Democrats. Even the Democrats themselves are shrugging their shoulders and saying “oh well, at least I’m not a target for Rove.” The whole party is scared, spineless, and completely unmotivated with the exception of a very few frustrated men and women. The Dems need a rallying point. A Bill Clinton or a Howard Dean without the sex scandals and the “YEAAAARGHHHH” heard ’round the world. They need someone who can shape policy and (most importantly) sell it to the people. If you have nothing to sell, you get no business. And right now, the Democrats don’t have a product.
Who could that be? Al Gore? Does he have the stature and credibility? Or Obama?
Any suggestions?
Democrats should stop looking for a Messiah-figure to come riding in on a white horse to save them, and focus instead on the actual local politics of all of the local races around the country. After they start winning some there, then they’ll have the ability and credibility to speak for their constituents, the way they’re supposed to.
Right now, there’s no effective Democratic “farm team.” The Republican party figured out in the 80′s that they needed to focus on individual communities rather than nationalizing all issues. By the 1994, there were lots and lots of credible Republican challengers in the House races. They mostly got there by doing a better job of understanding their constituents’ desires than the Democrats did.
The Democrats should focus on the State legislatures and mayorships for 6 years.
Well David I got some odd news for you regarding your assesments.
Here in red hell (Alabama) the democratic party is the majority in the state house, and has been for years and years. That sounds odd doesn’t it?
And, Howard Dean has been doing exactly what you said should be done, eventhough the Pelosi’s and Reid’s have given him hell for doing so. Dean has built up the party machine within the states dumping over 50 million into developing the party at state levels, and backing canidates that are new blood. Thing is he’s cathcing flack for not dumping that money into the old guard’s coffers so they can blow it retaining seats that the canidates themselves can easily win, and fund raise themselves. Instead those old guard types hate him and pile on with the right wingers that say he’s killing their party, like those right wingers would know eh? Frankly they are afraid of him because he has funneled money directly to the small grassroot state organizations and they must try to stop him even by using his own party. Big problem is Bill Clinton has converted to a backer of Dean just recently.
So new blood for house seats, and new blood and development for state seats are actually going to happen, just faster than we realize.