Reply #67: Listen to James Carville

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James said the job of a political party is to win elections. Who will decide the 2006 elections? Jesusland. This pledge generally appeals to the left. The left is already converted. The centrists are the key. Here's my suggestions:



The American people will be our priority, not politics. Drop this. It is the job of a party to be political. No one expects otherwise

Budget funding will provide for America's needs, not foreign nation building. Drop this. Jesusland is ok with some nation building

Indictments will be replaced by integrity. Ethical wrongdoing whoever, or wherever, it is found, will be exposed, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ok

We will fully preserve tax cuts for the middle class. It will be the millionaire tax cuts left behind, not the schools, teachers, children, veterans, poor, college students and the elderly. Good.

Real innovations for energy independence and new fuel technologies will be policy, not rhetoric. ok

Immediate legislation will be introduced to raise the minimum wage, and relentlessly pressured until signed into law. move this to #1

America will no longer be the only industrialized nation without Health care coverage for the uninsured. Health care coverage shall finally be a right and Democrats will lead the way vigorously to make it law. iffy

Immediate legislation will be introduced to halt our raging deficit and foreign debt. Pay as you go measures will be proposed and fought for until adopted. Drop this, the public won't believe this from any party

Homeland Security will be known for measures of increased security, not for red, orange and green threat alerts. Democrats will insist on extraordinary Homeland Security safeguards which will result in grades of A’s, not F’s. so-so

Lastly and our most solemn pledge, Democrats in Congress will insure war is unequivocally and without exception only a last resort, not a Presidential choice of regime change, and never without a plan to first, secure the peace. Drop this. Jesusland want leaders who will go to war when needed. Last resort will win no votes

Yet, let no aggressor misinterpret our resolve. Any aggression against the United States, whether it be individual, group or organization, Democrats will insure the aggression is met with the swiftest full force and might of the entire United States Military and all it’s technologies. We shall place no higher priority than United States citizens being safe in their homes, their possessions and their lives.


We ask that you believe in us, challenge us, and together, let us bring America back to greatness !

Jesusland want to be able to be safe outside the US, anyplace in the US and in their homes. Make sure you tell them that.

Jesusland needs a good wage and low taxes. Run on that, and don't turn them off.