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(An angry open letter to all liberals and Dems, in particular any Dem/Independent contending for political office or work on a political campaign against the GOP)
We liberals do like our puppet strings, don't we? The Prince of Darkness, Rove, dictates our talking points to us and we are more than happy to oblige him. What I mean by that is all this reactionary rhetoric to Berger, Wilson, Goldberg and a host of other "defensive" actions on our part. The GOP happily supplies us with a bit of hate fueled attack and we drop everything to yammer on endlessly about it.
Meanwhile, the GOP is left with enough empty space to suppress and frame this coming election. 2000 is repeating itself and its getting pretty eerie. Once again, we Democrats are allowing the GOP to tell us what this election is going to be about and we are happy to oblige them. Once again, they have set the stage and platforms for this election, and once again the Dems are in response mode by molding the election to the GOP's platform!
Folks, this has to stop right now!
We need to make the GOP answer on our issues. And we need to talk about nothing but our issues. Make the GOP respond to us, make the GOP stumble and fall on the sword of health care, poverty and jobs. Take them to task on the failures of 9/11 and Iraq. Question the Iraqi war, question troop deployments and depletions in other hot zones of unrest.
But, by all the gods and demons, we have to be unapologetic and unrelenting in our assault on these right wing nut jobs. Take the fight to the GOP and quit waiting to be whipped by these jingoes. They are weakest on the defensive, this past year has shown us that so let's get the Liberal rage flowing and burning the GOP hate machine to cinders! And for Pete's sake, stop blabbing about Rove's talking points!
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