The Dems need a leader(s) who will attack the Repub incumbency machine

[BurtWorm]

head on, relentlessly, day in, day out, in the courts, in the legislatures, in the media. We need leaders who are determined to snap the spine of the Republican power structure, to go after Tom DeLay, to make the case to the American people that Republicanism is not about ideology but about a power hungry party that cares only about keeping and augmenting its power at the expense of the needs of the American people.

I don't care who runs the DNC if he or she is able to lead this necessary kind of assault with the single-minded aim of weakening and eventually breaking the Republican monopoly on power by any legal means necessary. I personally think Howard Dean has shown he has the stomach for this kind of fight. But anyone who has that kind of nerve is okay with me.

[cheshire]

1. My husband was just saying the same thing. Dean seems interesting

in doing just that. I have no idea who else except someone like Mike Malloy but only because he's really pissed.

[BurtWorm]

2. The Dems need someone who is pissed and focused.

The party should be treating Republican majority as the ill it is, not as an accident of democracy or a swing of the pendulum. The longer the Republicans hold power, the tighter their grip will be.

[auburngrad82]

3. I agree whole-heartedly. n/t

[AmandaRuth]

4. not a Dem, but a "leader" that will change hearts and minds is

Air America. Getting this station on in rural America is crucial.

[Mike L]

6. That would be great, but

there would be little market for it in rural America now. Satellite radio is the best we can hope for. Hope that it catches on across the country.

[Kansas Wyatt]

10. Agreed...

I've lived in Kansas my whole life and right after the election, I asked my father (farmer) what was wrong with people in rural America. He told me that he had talked to several people in rural Kansas about what Bush was doing to this country, and they were completely unaware of what Bush really has been doing. I asked my father if they all thought that voting for Bush meant that the were voting for the very same guy that Dwight Eisenhower was, and he said that they actually do think there is no difference between GW Bush and Eisenhower.

[BurtWorm]

5. kick

[ohioan]

7. Why do we always look to a "leader" to guide us?

The Republican "incumbency machine" was created on the ground by Republicans quietly and gradually taking over state legislatures while Democrats were focusing all of our efforts on national politics and treating local politics like it was small potatoes.

We need to rebuild from the ground up and work to increase our numbers at the state level while we're also fighting to take back the national government. We don't need a "leader" to do it for us or tell us what to do. Just do it.

[BurtWorm]

8. That's a sound point, and I basically agree with it.

And yet, it would help to have a leadership that can coordinate the grass roots and safeguard the larger vision. It would be great if the grass roots would simultaneously attack across the country with the same intensity, but I doubt the Republicans were able to sustain that kind of attack without central planning. How can we expect to? This is a party of cats, remember?

[Slit Skirt]

9. Dean's the best

does his homewor, articulate as hell, and if you noticed...he ususally ends his statements with "that's why we need a new leader in the whitehouse." always staying on that message