Brent Budowsky offers election advice to the Democrats:
I come from the JFK school of winning. When I was a very young Senate aide, my bosses were JFK guys and would take me periodically to the old Mayflower Hotel where the great Kenny O’Donnell would hold court and talk about JFK and Bobby. They knew how to win, they played to win, and they won because they always took the initiative, they always took the offensive, they believed in striking first, and striking hard, and taking the fight to the other guy. Qualities modern Democrats have largely lost and must regain.
And when I worked for the House Democratic Leadership we won, we controlled the House, we did battle every day with Newt Gingrich and the same tactics Rove uses today, with Dick Cheney who was then our counterpart in the House Republican Leadership. We did not answer them, we counter-attacked by attacking them. I cannot tell you, how many countless conversations I had with Democratic candidates and Congressmen and women from tough districts about how to win.
Let’s make 2006 a Tsunami. Let’s make 2006 a landslide. And understand the math: we can win seats but remain in the minority; and we can win a slight majority of popular votes but emerge with a landslide gain of seats. Do not believe what the compensated consultants or pundits say on television. They have almost nothing to do with the real America. On the Sunday before the 1994 Republican landslide the Hotline and Sunday Washington Post polled 21 alleged experts. 17 of them, many of the same people in the punditry class today, said the Democrats would retain control of the House. 48 hours before a Republican landslide they had it totally backwards. When you see them on television today, ignore them.
What a great way to start the day. Go read it all.
So it’s all about winning, a? It’s all just a game. Iraq is about to become Little Big Horn, Israel contnues to prove to the world that it is the enemy, and the xians are absolutely gleeful the world is coming to its end.
To quote a movie I’ve never been able to fully view, The Deerhunter,
Fuck it, just fuck it.
Can’t do a fucking thing to stop them unless we win first. I don’t exactly see OUR electorate shutting down traffic a la Mexico…