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Mon Jan-03-05 12:57 PM
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21. Having a cause is great, but...

I'm not sure we could do any better than Dennis Kucinich's platform. The problem is that Dems will never get behind such a bold, ideological platform because they'd be implicating themselves for past policies / votes.

Maybe a way to position it is that, "The Republicans have been wrong on these issues...and so have we. Now is time for transformation."

Without a willingness to adopt an approach as radical as renouncing themselves, they'd be unable to put forth any sort of worthwhile platform...regardless of how many great ideas any of us might have.

In other words, I don't think lack of *ideas* is the problem.

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