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Do Dems need a STRONG-MAN to FIX the PARTY? Could Dodd or Vilsack or Obama do?
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 02:23 PM by Sensitivity
Democratic Party needs to get some Strong-Man DNA therapy.

Bill Maher is right. We did not earn this political landslide. The Pukes imploded. Their gods and demons turned against them.

As hard as we were all working, the PARTY is still a picture of disunity, dysfunction and ideological despair. Democrats seem to need some kind of force of nature if the Party is ever going to function effectively.

In 2000, GORE was too straight-laced and proper to standby Clinton and slam idiot Bush

In 2004, KERRY was too noble and aloof to hammer the blood-libel and gutter-fight the Pukes in the slime war.

Maybe we need some sort of injection of strong-man genes into the Party Leadership.

Just look at 2006.

The behavior of the Democratic Party in the run-up to 2006 was a picture of dysfunction – no unity of leadership (they abandoned Kerry titular head, and presented a confusing cacophony of voices – Reid, Pelosi, Dean, Biden, Clinton), conflicting strategies for Party building (50 state vs strategic targeting), divergent plans on Iraq (break-up Iraq vs get out of Iraq).

The recent Kerry flap showed that there is absolutely no discipline or coordination in the Party.

First, Kerry, the 2004 Presidential Nom and de-facto titular head of the Party, was out there giving speeches with no vetting or real quality professional support. Why the F* was Kerry running himself ragged funding and supporting candidates by himself – surely both Kerry and the Party knew that the Puke bash-Kerry machine was tuned and just waiting for a slip.

Second, after Kerry’s slip-up, why was there was no coordination in explaining the “botched joke.”

Third, after Kerry sought to fight off the smear, how on earth could you NOT have a phalanx of Dems fighting with him and watching his back? My God, it was unbelievable, like Ceasar on the Ides of March.

The massive dysfunction is obvious to all. This can’t go on.

Now that the citizenry have given us both House and the Senate we will need enormous PARTY DISCIPLINE to do the hard things desperately needed to restore democracy:
-- Fix the voting machines – publicly managed, audited system
-- Declare election day a holiday
-- Enact real campaign finance reform
-- End the WAR

Etc.

Alright now Mr. Dodd, Mr. Vilsack, Mr. Obama. Who is going to take the gene therapy?

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