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[haele]

44. Okay, so what are you willing to give up to appease them?

Put Charlie Christ or another Blue Dog in as Minority Leader?
Banish all West Coast and Elitist NE Democrats from leadership positions?

I know they feel "left behind", but the reason they despise Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton - and every other strong democrat is because they're Strong Democrats, and the Media paints them as rabid Liberals.

I get it. It's FUD from the Media, especially Sinclair, Clear Channel, and Faux, which is pretty much all there is where they come from. Doesn't matter what we tell them the Democrats want to do for them, doesn't matter about competency and actual effectiveness, it is all about what looks good on TV. And frankly, most of them think women are weak.

Because of Media "image" the so-called Working Class left-behinds Democrats think they want Tip O'Neill or LBJ back, because these "guys" look like the hard bitten, salt of the earth work-a-holics they can have a drink with at the Rotary Club, or at the Elks, or sit near at the next Big-10/SEC/ACC game - guys who wouldn't mind rolling up their sleeves and putting a hard-hat and work boots on to tour the worksite and commiserate about jobs, borders and the unfairness of society at large. They'll "take care of the regular Joe".
While in the Midwest Nancy is obviously a latte drinking Liberal from "San Fransico" (and you know what sort of deviants and wusses live there!) who wouldn't get her nails messed up putting dishes in the sink, let alone care about real workers - she only cares about her image, dontchaknow...
While a lot of Pelosi's perceived weaknesses is the way she has to wheel and deal to get the Blue Dogs on board in the first place. Her work is incremental, and that's just due to the nature of politics. She can't dictate from on high, because that doesn't work in a Coalition - something most of the "New Blood" Berniecrats don't seem to understand.

Do you want an attractive image, or do you want competence and political savvy? Do you think the Democrats should be an "Evangelical Establishment" like the GOP and the Greens - where they practice groupthink in policy, or are we a Coalition that wants to govern with *everyone's interest* vice lead focus groups from goal to goal no matter who gets hurt?

Remember, the GOP dirt throwers project; they look at governance as "winner take all", and do everything they can to make a strength look like a weakness in the "court of public opinion".

Haele