Reply #39: Losing Once Wasn't Enough? [View All]

I learned some things from this election. One of them is that John Kerry was the wrong person to run for president. The other is that the democrat party has lost its identity.
Rove played Kerry as indecisive and Kerry helped him make it work. Kerry was vulnerable because there was no resolution to his message. America is divided in half and Kerry played the middle so hard he looked like a weak choice to the liberals and an even weaker choice to the conservatives. There was no passion in his appeal that included the stuff that gets in our hearts. The hard hitting simple truth. No clear message on what he would do in Iraq because Kerry didn't have a clear plan. He needed one. That issue alone may have cost him the election.
I supported Kerry, volunteered at rallies, distributed material, wrote, registered voters, did everything I could and never during this could I make myself see him as much more than "anybody but Bush".
Kerry spent all his money and energy in the cities where he already had the votes. Rural and small town America were left out of his state by state campaign. There was no grand democrat plan for the election. They fucked us with this irresponsibly run campaign....IMHO.
The last thing in the world I am going to do is overlook the fact that the democrat party blew it. If we don't learn from this one we are going to keep losing. We had better get organized, define who we are in clear terms and be prepared to fight. If we don't we are going to be stuck with weak candidates in every election and they will defeat us. Its that simple IMO.
Replacing the head of the democrat party may help, but it is not going to solve our problems. We are identified by the people we have representing us...the ones who are already in office. The democrats have allowed the republicans to dominate them since the day after 911. They looked weak then, and if they don't stand up and become a real opposition party now they are going to humiliate themselves and our party into non-existence.