Reply #14: What the DLC hasn't understood...

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.. is that Bush voters aren't going to be swayed to voting Democrats because Democrats move towards supporting Bush's positions. That by itself isn't going to win votes when they *already have* Bush supporting those positions.

What is needed is a clear delineation of issues that the Dems disagree with Republicans on, why those issues make sense for most Americans to agree with the Dems position on them, and to make that a big part of the campaign why to vote *for* the Democrats in an area where the Republicans won't help the voter on these issues that they may feel strongly about. The Dems have done a poor job of this. They keep trying to play the "me too" approach publicly, while taking corruption money from corporations that bless some of these "me too" issue stands, without articulating a message that resonates with American citizens at large.

That's a losers strategy, especially if you hope to sell yourself as the party that's not corrupted, which exposes you as just about the same hypocrites that you claim the Republicans are supposed to be. Hypocrisy I think is one issue that most Americans hate about politics today, but they feel that noone is dealing with appropriately, and as a result many are ready to give up in being a part of the political process if neither party tries to do a better job of not being corrupted into being hypocrites.