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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 06:42 PM
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Its all about DEFINITIONS: How the DEMS can WIN: Defining the Battle
The Pubs use the Divide and Win Mode

They define the Battle: They use small attacks against individuals...they define each opponent with a slur, a fabrication, Swift boat BS, etc

The Dem guy defends himself until blue in the face...thats the LOW Level Attact the GOP has been using thus far...we fall for it...

We should be defining our BASIC differences..OUR OVER ALL POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY...over their NEGATIVE POLICY/PHILOSOPHY

They have a proven Track Record they wish to distract from...using neg ads etc

They have given us Dems tons of ammo we hardly use...

The Dems need to squish the GOP with the BIG PICTURE...The GOP HAS BEEN a total FAILURE. Conservatism is like a fuckin CANCER for AMERICA...

FUCK the individual fights...the minutiae level...the Probs facing America and our Planet is on LEVEL 2 so the answers lay in this DIRECTION...a Higher Larger PICTURE...the Pubs answers are all basic level 1 crap..redundent to the bone and tiring as well...cause the Pubs have failed to produce one GD Touchdown...nada.

The DEMS need to define our GOALS in a Level 1 approach but the Message is Level 2...The answer lies in the direction of POSITIVITY

Look at History: The Gov't that cares for the People, shares, nutures, ispires, etc in a benevolent way enriches the Nation.

The PUBs GOP Gov't have been eroding our riches to the point we are a debtor Nation of the highest Order. Their stewardship of our NATION SUCKS. They have gotten us into a mode too low to believe...the selfdefeating mode. and we are falling for it.

Reduced to simple terms

GOP STEWARDSHIP SUCKS

GOP RECORD IS A LOSING RECORD...FCS...they canardly pick a President right....

etc

What say you? Can we see the BIG PICTURE at the NEXT LEVEL?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 09:16 PM
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1. Mostly, Repubs like personal issues and Dems like policy issues...
That puts Democrats at a disadvantage from the beginning. If your opponent is calling you a "flip-flopper" and you are discussing a new healthcare system, the people will listen to the personal attacks first and foremost. Democrats do personal attacks also, but theirs tend to be drive by, a one time shot and gone. Repubs work slowly, over a period of months or years if necessary, to gradually and sometimes subtly tear down their Democratic opponent. They are simply better at personal attacks than are the Democrats. I don't know what the answer would be??
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 01:32 AM
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3. The DEMs Policy Level/Approach needs to be HONED/Improved/
to the point the Masses make a shift toward Acceptance....

There are ways to do this if we look hard enough.

The GIVEN? This Status Quo SUCKS...The GOP Have Failed America in Many Ways: Let us Count them....
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The Traveler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 11:27 PM
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2. How about
The party that is opposed to torture. The party that is opposed to experimenting on Americans with microwave weapons. The party that gives a shit. Jeeze. These moral morons should be easily exposed and the people easily moved to laugh them out of office. What's the problem? Is everyone so beholden to their corporate masters that they cannot open their mouths and simply speak common sense to the people?

Forget speaking truth to power. Speak to the people.

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 01:44 AM
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4. Exactly....get to the Level that works with a Positive Message
A Message that cannot be refuted unless using Delusion...

The DEMs point of view should be descibed as sensible, likeable, attractive, a no brainer.

It calls for a shift:

Like, "HEY, you GOP Pubs had POWER for 12 YEARS and we got shit....ITS OUR TURN FOR AWHILE. ... TO SHOW AMERICA WHAT WE DEMs CAN DO..."

VOTE BLUE FOR ADVANCEMENT

RED for the continueation of The Status QUO.... GOP Crap disguished as ice cream.....and FEAR....

ARE WE WIMPS....So Afraid??? That we suck for the FEAR CARD offered by Bush GOP as a SOLUTION?...Thats Insane....

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