The Dem model for 2010 is right there. Add a few tweaks, and we keep the Congress easily.

RBInMaine

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Sun Sep-05-10 01:05 PM
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The Dem model for 2010 is right there. Add a few tweaks, and we keep the Congress easily.

Edited on Sun Sep-05-10 01:31 PM by RBInMaine

Worried about the mid terms? Why? We have better candidates and more money. Big as the issue may be, ALL the PUKES really have is a continued sluggish economy that THEY created. So how do we hold our own in the midterms, and maybe even flip a few seats here and there? One model is right there for all to see: Mark Crist's special election win in PA. The GOP threw everything they had at Crist. He is in a socially conservative district that McGrumpy won by a few points.

How did Crist win by 6 or 7 points? He knew his district and ran conservative on the social issues. No problem doing that in THAT district. Like it or not, THAT is the culture there. However, he also knew his district is economically progressive, and he kicked the shit out of the RePUKE Wall-Streeter by attacking him on his "I Love Wall Street" record while running as a
domestic jobs supporter and economic populist. Both his positive and ATTACK messages were very good, and he ORGANIZED the unions to help him on the ground. I think he'll hold that seat this fall. So a damn good model for the rest of the party. Here it is:

1) "Excite" the Democratic base with an unwavering message of strong economic populism. (Remember how FDR rallied his troops shouting that he "welcomed the hatred" of America's monied interests lined up against him?) You take a stand of conviction and smash the shit out of the RePUKEs as the "Job Destroying Lovers Of Wall Street And Big Money Who Want To Repeal Financial Reform And Everything Else For The Middle Class". You say that what has happened to the middle class under Republicanism is IMMORAL, and that going forward we are going to once and for all invest in our own people, end the tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, etc. (Lakeoff is right. There must be a moral frame.) You also tout our many legislative accomplishments, and continue to label the PUKES as the horrid party of "backward" and "yesterday" who created the mess in the first place, and AND that they want to kill Medicare and SS. (YES, you continue to say that THEY made the mess, and WE are trying to clean it up the right way, not by going backwards to what caused it in the first place. You make a BIG issue out of the "BIG MONEY" financing their campaigns.)

2) You also excite the base AND move many moderate Indies over to us by relentlessly attacking the RePUKES as the party of the TeaNuts. Simple as that. You attack, and attack, and attack the living shit out of them on this point. Hang the TeaNuts around their necks like a stinking albatross. "TOO EXTREME FOR _____________________. (fill in whatever district)" should be said a thousand times in every race.

3) You work like hell. (Bill Clinton said it best: "To win a campaign, you form a good message and then work like hell.") That means getting the hell off of ones' ass and putting together a grass roots organization, knocking on doors, phone banking, donating, putting out signs, lit dropping, facebooking, emailing, writing letters to the editor, etc. etc. etc. - DOORS and PHONES, in that order, are the two most effective things you can do in a campaign.

Do this, and we'll be ok. (And yes, the national leadership does need to lead the attack. But Obama HAS laid out some good attacks, and so has the DNC. We just need more more more, and even TOUGHER. And the MORAL message of economic populism MUST be shouted loudly while relentlessly attacking the PUKES as extremists and LOVERS of Wall Street and Big Money.

"Organized Money is like mob rule." - Another FDR quote.

(PS: Also look at how Reid is attacking AngleTheWhacko, how Tarryl Clark is attacking WhackoBachman, how Conway is attacking WhackpRand, etc.)