Republicans always seem to co-opt "America"

[JohnLocke]

Always associating themselves with the flag, apple pie, picket fences, mom...

[david_vincent]

1. Yes, and it works

It's high time that Democrats take the same tack.
May God bless you, and God bless America.

[salinen]

2. co-opt

and with all the major media telling us how horrible libs are, and how honest and upright the pubs are, that we are a equally divided nation. so without the mouthpiece, the pubs are sunk. take back media from right wing fuckers.

[JohnLocke]

3. If you don't support Democrats, you're un-American!

Does'nt sound right, does it?

[Elidor]

4. Yes, brand America has done well for the GOP.

But behind the veneer is a serial collection of liars, thieves, pimps and thugs. Wifebeaters and child-molesters. Fascists, nazis and Stalinists. They smile and shake hands all around the crowd, then go off to do unspeakable things to people. It says a lot about our country that scum like Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott and Tom Delay can do what they do in broad daylight and not be run out of town on a rail.

It's time for liberals to forcibly remove the flag from the GOP's mouth and put it where it belongs - right up their asses. One by one, on tv and in print, we must refute their platitudes with their own hypocritical, unamerican actions.

We also must make education a top priority. Our country is staggering from the disastrous results of a poorly educated electorate, which is the way the GOP wants it. Education should be funded by locking in the defense budget at 1/10 the size of the education budget. Even if we start now, it will be many years before we can undo the damage of the last few years. Free Education for Everyone should be our goal. Educated people (generally) don't fall for the kind of crap the GOP is slinging: wrapping themselves in the flag as their rich friends haul off the Treasury through the back door.

*oops, I didn't see that soapbox there*