Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Message to the Democrats
I'm an individual voter who has voted straight ticket Democratic for the past umpteen general elections, often holding my nose as I did so. Look upon the Lieberman defeat, however narrow, consider that he started out with all the advantages - incumbancy, money, endorsements, name recognition - & that Ned Lamont came out of nowhere to knock him off against all the initial "conventional wisdom." Remember:
I am not the problem.
George W. Bush is the problem.
The Republican leadership is the problem.
The war in Iraq is the problem.
How we make America secure is the problem.
Supreme Court nominees are the problem.
Protecting Social Security is the problem.
The radical Christian right is the problem.
Tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy minority are the problem.
Corruption is the problem.
Protecting human rights is the problem.
Global warming is the problem.
Health care is the problem.
Joe Lieberman blamed voters like me last night.
But his problem was that he forgot people like me vote.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
I am not the problem.
George W. Bush is the problem.
The Republican leadership is the problem.
The war in Iraq is the problem.
How we make America secure is the problem.
Supreme Court nominees are the problem.
Protecting Social Security is the problem.
The radical Christian right is the problem.
Tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy minority are the problem.
Corruption is the problem.
Protecting human rights is the problem.
Global warming is the problem.
Health care is the problem.
Joe Lieberman blamed voters like me last night.
But his problem was that he forgot people like me vote.