Bill Mahar on Friday [View all]

[Norbert]

I know sometimes he can get on peoples nerves but Friday he did get one thing right which is a problem for Democrats and progressives. He ran a bunch of GOP commercials with the candidates saying they are so conservative, they are the real conservative yadda yadda. He went on to say "You never hear anyone bragging about being a liberal." He went on to say. "Democrats might want to think about what that means. Because the implication is you are embarrassed about what liberalism has become...and it's a shame because, despite their nonsense, it is still generally, generally a better product. But what does it say about your brand if you don't want to say what you are?"

I will say I think sometimes identity politics goes a little too fat sometimes but he does have a point. And it the same thing with Democrats campaigning for office but keeping the president at arms length. In the past Democrats campaigned for office while making sure Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, both highly successful presidents, from campaigning for them. Why? The only reason I can see is we are still after all these years letting the GOP control the message and we need to put constraint on out campaigning because the 'prevailing thought' is it better to campaign that way.

We need to wake up. We have the other side campaigning while shooting things with guns they don't like. It shouldn't be hard to make our side look better.