Reply #19: That's what I'm saying. It wasn't a party plank. But it definitely was a [View All]

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mood among voters that wasn't coming from the party or the ticket.

I feel like lots of us got lured into forgetting to tell voters what we were for.

I think Kerry's best moments in this campaign were the weeks around the debates because for the first time people heard what he was for.

The arguments he made for himself in those debates -- those should have been the things we talked about here at DU for the last two years.

Ie, the frame should have been being FOR things, not being against things. "ABB" is a frame for what you're against -- Anybody But Bush is defnining yourself by what you're against and not what you're for. It shouldn't have been part of the lexicon at all. The first time someone said it, it should have been rejected as wrong-headed. But it didn't die at all.