Reply #43: Personally, I don't like cars in general [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

and the idea of wasting gasoline driving a bunch of them around in a circle seems really silly. But it makes no less sense to me than tennis, which I find as boring as golf to watch, and I can't stand playing either one.

That being said, the Dems would not have lost so many NASCAR fans if they'd tended to business during the 1970s and 1980s and not caved in to the Reagan revolution while letting the Republicans paint them as the party of the Brie-eating Northeastern elites giving free handouts exclusively to non-white non-males while inviting the Communists to come in and take over.

The New Deal coalition held together because it had something for everyone. This year, the Dems need to emphasize the economic issues, the ones that affect everyone, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or belief system. Health care, education, affordable housing, jobs, workers' rights, real tax reform--there are plenty of winning issues out there.