Intellectual Dishonesty 101: "We can't tell the U.K. what to do"

[Savannahmann]

21. Good, let's move on shall we?

How are we going to win the House in 2014 while revelations of NSA spying are making us look like wannabe Rethugs?

How is that for another topic? Or this. How are we going to get our base to turn out when so many in the party spends so much time insulting them? What is our sales pitch going to be? Get out and vote, if you don't the Rethugs will win and they'll spy on you?

How do we keep the Senate when a growing number of people, nearly a majority all ready, object to this stuff and consider it important?

But let's move on. I know, let's talk about Drone Strikes which create as many terrorists as they kill? No, bad topic to get the anti-war and anti-spying base to turn out. Perhaps we could run on our record of holding Wall Street accountable. Nothing there to run on. Perhaps we can campaign on how well that Employer Mandate is working out. Nope, nothing there to run on.

We have smarted our way into a corner, and the paint is on the floor, and the only question is how the hell we get out of this mess. Evolving on some of these issues is obvious, and obviously the one tactic we won't take. Fear has put us in this corner, and fear will keep us here. That leaves the field open for the Rethugs to run the table.

So what do you want to talk about? How about we campaign on Citizens United. That should really get people excited to vote Democratic.