Reply #22: You aren't gonna like this, but...

[Moderate Dem]

I think that the Democrats won on issues, but lost on perception, aided by Karl Rove.

We saw Michael Moore all over the country campaigning. We know that he drove a lot of mainstream voters to vote for Bush, after his message was propagandized by the right (the wacky conspiracy theories didn't help either).

Here's my point: If Michael Moore was everywhere polarizing the electorate, where the hell were the right wing nut jobs like Judge Roy Moore? My answer is that they were effectively silenced (for the time being) by the right, because Rove KNEW that they would in turn drive votes to Kerry. Does this mean that Rove was smarter than we were? probably...

We have to realize that the DU is on the FAR LEFT wing of the Democratic Party! People on the fringes of a party will never drive that party to the fringe, at best they can subtly nudge the party in the direction they want to go. The best thing that the DU can do is to quietly organize the DU's own base, and next time, take a hint from Karl Rove. Hide the wackos until afterwards if you really want to win.