Reply #11: Cause we all KNOW *they're* bad.... [View All]

[Smarmie Doofus]

I'm not sure of the content of the threads to which you refer as I've been off the board for a few days.

But the idea that that only the "really" bad guys should be critiqued here is shortsighted, to put it mildly. One of the great things about a forum like this is the opportunity for self-examination. We are a party which has not achieved fifty percent in a nat'l election since *CARTER*!

Big Bill, despite the subsequent mystique and mythology, polled 43% and 49% ( with a great economy, an all southern ticket and and a weak reelect opponent) in his nat'l runs, respectively. Gore and Kerry garnered 49 and 48 repectively, but ferchrissakes, look who they were running against. What is Hillary or whomever, going to do when they have to face an adult opponent in 2008 ( McCain, Powell, whomever)? One that can actually speak and think??? I think you're looking at a McGovern/Mondale type landslide, frankly.

As a national party, we got problems. Better to hash them out here and now than pretend that nothing is wrong.