Reply #7: Right on MHR [View All]

[ewagner]

You also hit on a key point which I have been harping about for some time. The subject: ORGANIZATION

I worked for Republican candidates in my youth. The biggest difference between the two parties is organization. Republicans are organized (stratified) from the National Party right down to "block captains" in every city and county.

In my later years, as a Democrat, I successfully employed the repub organization strategy to be elected to public office twice.

The problem seems to be that our party is very suspicious of leadership and organization. We believe so much in equality and the right of every voice to be heard that we cannot bring ourselves to impose discipline in the form of leadership.

In our party the National leadership is similar to what I described above. They seem uncomfortable with building an organizational structure and operating a coordinated campaign within that structure.

Good post...we need to be talking about this more often and in greater detail.