4 main things we must work on as a party in order to take back America!

1. Investigate vote fraud and make sure the system has integrity (or none of the other 3 matter)

2. Stand by our principles (don't become 'republican-lite')

3. Fine tune our message (this is almost a marketing concept here)

4. Get more TV visibility for our talking points (we gotta get the liberal version of Fox News--the radio thing is emerging I think)


Now what? Break into sub-committees and get to work or what?

everywhere. We have to secure the integrity of the vote count first. WE know the fraud occurred. We know the real Republicans don't like it either. Now is the time to write the intuitive and get the signatures. We have 18 months to get 500,000 signatures here in Texas. Can I get a little help here?

If people don't get the connection between Corporate America and every other problem we've got, then there's no damned point in doing anything at all.

It's a forum where members offer ideas for fighting back and it also includes posts about efforts already in progress. We should all check in there from time to time, at least those of us who desire to take action.

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1. forget the vote fraud thing. The only way to prevent that is to get control of things like the Sec'y of State offices, etc., around the country. See that happening anytime soon?

2. what principles? Can you explain what the Democratic Party as a whole stands for? I can't. There are simply too many issues and too much pandering for the party to mean anything except jobs for the folks pulling down salaries from D.C.

3. Fine tune our message? Make gay marriage more acceptable to the fundies? Abortion? Taxation? What part of the message do you figure the red states didn't get? Remember the "lipstick on a pig" line? Our message is "we'll promise anything if you vote for us." How much finer tuned can it get?

4. Get more tv visibility? Like we didn't try? We had half a dozen men out there (and Carol Braun) working for Kerry, all of whom had been primary candidates themselves, something unheard of in the past. They would say "a", Tweety would report "b". You can't fight that. We would have been better off if no one had appeared on tv and we had relied on our ads (some of them were killer, though I don't know to this day why the DNC or some 527 didn't pick up Rep. Ryan's rant on the draft and run it 24/7). The only way we can match the right is to buy up our own tv stations and, you know what? Murdoch and Sinclair and the others ain't selling.

Me, I think we should scrap the whole Democratic party and start one of our own; one with principles and programs, and that stands for something like world peace or some silly idea like that. First though people have to get past the "Democrat" label and see just how "last millenium" our party really has become.

We have to put a stop to less credibel theories that make us look and sound like a bunch of idiots