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We not only have to buttress and protect his victory (Class Warrior - our "MEME MEMO" person, has suggested that we all be rawther forceful in "reminding" the Bad Guys that they've LOST, that it's a MANDATE, and - heck - EVEN A LANDSLIDE. (YES, I realize it may not be a landslide (unless it's an Electoral College landslide) but since their twerp went swaggering around all over Washington making like he had a mandate when he hadn't even won the popular vote, I'd say all's fair in love and war (and voting), and we thus have clearance to smash it back in their faces.
We HAVE to keep Kerry (and all other Dems - zell miller'll be GONE anyway - cheney him!) protected. Mainly since he and the Dems will have SO MUCH WORK TO DO to repair the damage the bushies have done. There is so obscenely much wreckage that has to be cleared away. Our international reputation has to be rehabilitated. Our nearly-destroyed former relationships with our allies have to be repaired and restored. And all those legislative steps backward HAVE to be reversed. The more of a juggernaut we can help generate, to capitalize on the momentum we'll get from A) a Kerry win and - EVEN MORE IMPORTANT - B) a republi-CON LOSS and subsequent demoralization, the better. Repeat - DEMORALIZATION. It will be important to watch like hawks for opportunities - when they're off licking their wounds and sobbing into their beer and crying on limbaugh's shoulders and whining to their cronies about their stolen birthright - to get a few things taken care of swiftly and decisively.
That means it is ESSENTIAL to keep the republi-CONS securely OFF THEIR MARK, OFF THEIR GAME, OFF THEIR BALANCE. Such a victory WILL throw them into some disarray, in any event. Many of them will be in shock. (So will much of the media, mark my words.) THIS SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY EXPLOITED!!!!
Perhaps some of us might even consider ways to encourage the roiling discord that's bubbling through their party even now. On MSNBC the other night, during the Dem Convention coverage, Pat Buchanan said that - win OR lose - the republi-CON party would be in turmoil after the election, because there's such a schism in there already - moderates and other relatively reasonable thinkers feel completely disenfranchised and virtually homeless, because the whole damned party's been hijacked by the "unholy alliance" of religious whackos and the neocons. These are the folks who are complaining more than ever now about how their party has abandoned what they feel it means to be a true Republican (note - I said Republican here, not republi-CON) - like balancing budgets and not spending like drunken sailors and not ballooning the size of the government bureaucracy and keeping big intrusive government off our backs and out of our lives. These are the people you'd find at sites like Conservatives Against bush (I think that's the name of it). We have a number of them HERE, among US now, folks whose beliefs are really quite honorable and supportable, who believe in working together as ladies and gentlemen who share the same basic goals and love of America that WE DEMS do, who acknowledge and honor (and are NOT threatened by) the fact that people CAN disagree but still do business together, and who don't believe in the "Scorched Earth" tactics of the newt gingriches and tom delays who've given them all a horribly bad name. These are folks who've already defected out of sheer frustration and disgust. Whatever we can do to encourage such a schism would be a good thing.
We also will have to keep Kerry honest. Hold him to his word. Stay on his ass about Iraq til we get our troops OUT OF THERE, PERIOD. We have to stay on his ass about things like openness in government, opening up all those sneaky, shitty, secret things that people like cheney hid from us, and all those papers that bush had locked away, and bring 'em out into the open to see WHAT WE TAXPAYERS GOT FOR OUR MONEY. It was all done IN OUR NAME, in the first place. We have to stay on his ass about the FCC, and DO SOMETHING to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine or something like it, to bring TRUE, GENUINE fairness and balance back to the airwaves, so some rich, reactionary thug like rupert murdoch can't dominate OUR media and set our agenda for us. We have to stay on his ass about seeking JUSTICE for all this, and holding the bushies accountable. Perhaps even a whole new examination of 9/11, to get some REAL answers. THIS WILL ONLY COME WITH LARGE, VOCAL PUBLIC SUPPORT. ESPECIALLY if we're busy planting the post-election MEMES of LANDSLIDE!!! and MANDATE!!!
AND - we have to keep working on the media. We have to KEEP being a thorn in their sides. DEMAND that they be fair to Kerry in the same way that they gave bush a honeymoon that started BEFORE the 2000 election and hasn't fully subsided even to this very moment.
So... I hope a lot of people will stick around. There will be a LOT of work to be done.
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