Reply #5: We need ideas, not blind opposition

[dolstein]

Unfortunately, many on the left seem content to do nothing but fight each and every proposal coming from the Bush administration.

But if we've learned anything from the past few years, it should be that (1) you can't beat bad ideas with no ideas and (2) voters will support someone who's strong but wrong over someone who's weak but right.

I think the Democratic Party could learn a lot from Newt Gingrich. After all, he's the last person to successfully seize control of Congress from an entrenched majority.

The Democratic Party needs to come up with their own contract for American. A short list of policy proposals that are easy to explain to voters, that are bold, that appeal to a broad spectrum of the electorate, that fit into a common theme, and that any Democrat anywhere in the country can run on. The simple fact is that far too many voters simply don't know what the Democratic Party stands for. And so they'll vote for the devil they know over the devil they don't.