The Democrats: If Jack, Bobby, and Kenny Had Breakfast Today

Brent Budowsky: The Democrats: If Jack, Bobby, and Kenny Had Breakfast Today

June 10, 2006
Brent Budowsky: The Democrats: If Jack, Bobby, and Kenny Had Breakfast Today

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Thinking about the results in the California House seat this week, if the Kennedys and O'Donnell were having breakfast the morning after, does anybody believe they would be saying anything like this: OK guys, Kerry got 44% in that District, and we got all the way up to 45%, and forced the Republicans to spend twice as much as us, to win the seat again?

In fact, if Jack, Bobby and Kenny had breakfast the day after that result, the FCC would not permit me on talk radio to use the exact words they would have used, but the word would go forth to Democrats everywhere: do not let this happen again.

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Jack, Bobby and Kenny believed in this: in elections there is one winner and one loser. The winner should campaign in a battle of ideas, and gets to wield power to implement those ideas to make our country better. The loser has nothing but excuses for defeat.

JFK viewed politics as mobilization, promoting worthy ideas and running political organizations that were full blown machines, on every level, from seizing the media initiative to organizing armies of workers, to aggressively fighting on every level involving the machinery as well as the ideas that win elections.

Looking at the Democrats today, observations:

Really Inspiring and Amazing Article:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001476.php#more

PNAC's plans to infiltrate the DLC.
I heard Frank Luntz on Tavis Smiley this afternoon offering "advice" to the Democrats on how to win elections. His advice: Stay more centrist. :puke:

It's already a wholly-owned subsidiary! :argh:

k and r!!!

I, myself, am a believer of the big tent. I welcome greens and dlc'ers. When I was out pitching Dean, I was able to pull some Greens into the fold. It wasn't that Dean was liberal enough (the pure Greens I know deplored even Kucinich, yet the could tolerate Sharpton due to Cornel West's involvement in his campaign), it was that I reached out to them.