To the NH Democratic Party upon receiving my 1st Newsletter from them:
To Whom It May Concern:
I’m a Democrat…I’m a letter writer…I feel I should get off my butt and do some more, and I want to get involved in my local (Meredith Dist. 3) election. So, I found out who the incumbents are and who’s recently signed up to run against them…Somewhere in there I called your office and the nice person on the other end helped me figure a lot of this stuff out. I also signed up for the newsletter.
This is my first newsletter from y’all and I’m sorry, but I must give you a bit of guff! Now, I’ll admit, I have to learn a bit more about this Coburn guy and his proposed gas tax/tax freeze thingy…but do me a favor. You’re flogging the flip-flop thing like a pissed off, un-cool, little kid.
C’mon! We’ve got to be WAY better than that! Look, I’m all for giving it right back to ‘em, but at least we should keep up rhetorically! Use a republican catch phrase that’s been in rotation within the last three years! Flip-flop…I mean…Geeze…don’t mess around, the word is ‘hypocrite!’ Or ‘he has no core beliefs’ or…? I don’t know, give me a day and I’ll come up with at least five better things than ‘flip-flop!’ The fact that y’all used ‘flip-flop’ only makes me believe that ‘He was for it before he was against it’ was discarded as too obvious.
We’ve spent WAY too long letting the ‘other’ guys set both the tone and the topic of discussion, and here you are sounding like a guy in a crew cut and a neck tie in 1968 exclaiming “Far-out!” …Sigh…and to think we’re supposed to be the ‘cool’ ones ;-) …Don’t mince words; don’t buy into the trap of restating the lie! The Democrats need to re-claim the debate! All I see is Democrats reacting, reacting, reacting…time to get on the offensive, time to tell the WHOLE story.
(Don’t’ get me started on the liberal media…ah, if the liberal media and Santa Clause could only muster their powers there would finally be peace in the world.)
And to think it was the Left that taught the Right how to run a successful grass roots campaign…how did we let that one go? Did we get complacent? Personally I think J.Q. Public is tremendously complacent, the other guys just know how to push their ‘social issue’ buttons better, and are shameless in the pushing. That combined with the fact that J.Q Public’s attention span is less than half of one news cycle.
We cannot let ourselves be solely cast in the role as ‘opposition.’ We must grab the middle ground of common sense. We must remake ourselves in the image of the ‘reasonable’ guy. Let the other guys sound hysterical and wring their hands. Let us stand for the collective ‘everyman.’ We must recapture the debate.
Ok. I’ll stop. Sorry. I just want to see us make some gains in this mid-term, in the State of NH and in the country. We need this one. The whole world needs this one. Really, let’s try and not *&$$& it up. So… keep me posted. I’m a Democrat, I want to do something, and I’m a bit pissed off. Keep me in the loop!
I’m a Democrat…I’m a letter writer…I feel I should get off my butt and do some more, and I want to get involved in my local (Meredith Dist. 3) election. So, I found out who the incumbents are and who’s recently signed up to run against them…Somewhere in there I called your office and the nice person on the other end helped me figure a lot of this stuff out. I also signed up for the newsletter.
This is my first newsletter from y’all and I’m sorry, but I must give you a bit of guff! Now, I’ll admit, I have to learn a bit more about this Coburn guy and his proposed gas tax/tax freeze thingy…but do me a favor. You’re flogging the flip-flop thing like a pissed off, un-cool, little kid.
C’mon! We’ve got to be WAY better than that! Look, I’m all for giving it right back to ‘em, but at least we should keep up rhetorically! Use a republican catch phrase that’s been in rotation within the last three years! Flip-flop…I mean…Geeze…don’t mess around, the word is ‘hypocrite!’ Or ‘he has no core beliefs’ or…? I don’t know, give me a day and I’ll come up with at least five better things than ‘flip-flop!’ The fact that y’all used ‘flip-flop’ only makes me believe that ‘He was for it before he was against it’ was discarded as too obvious.
We’ve spent WAY too long letting the ‘other’ guys set both the tone and the topic of discussion, and here you are sounding like a guy in a crew cut and a neck tie in 1968 exclaiming “Far-out!” …Sigh…and to think we’re supposed to be the ‘cool’ ones ;-) …Don’t mince words; don’t buy into the trap of restating the lie! The Democrats need to re-claim the debate! All I see is Democrats reacting, reacting, reacting…time to get on the offensive, time to tell the WHOLE story.
(Don’t’ get me started on the liberal media…ah, if the liberal media and Santa Clause could only muster their powers there would finally be peace in the world.)
And to think it was the Left that taught the Right how to run a successful grass roots campaign…how did we let that one go? Did we get complacent? Personally I think J.Q. Public is tremendously complacent, the other guys just know how to push their ‘social issue’ buttons better, and are shameless in the pushing. That combined with the fact that J.Q Public’s attention span is less than half of one news cycle.
We cannot let ourselves be solely cast in the role as ‘opposition.’ We must grab the middle ground of common sense. We must remake ourselves in the image of the ‘reasonable’ guy. Let the other guys sound hysterical and wring their hands. Let us stand for the collective ‘everyman.’ We must recapture the debate.
Ok. I’ll stop. Sorry. I just want to see us make some gains in this mid-term, in the State of NH and in the country. We need this one. The whole world needs this one. Really, let’s try and not *&$$& it up. So… keep me posted. I’m a Democrat, I want to do something, and I’m a bit pissed off. Keep me in the loop!
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