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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Set Your DVRs For A Clusterf*ck In The Making! [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)only the Republicans have it together enough to have debates, that only the Republicans have a message and ideas.
Our Democratic Party leadership is failing us.
This is how and why we lost so big in 2014. Had the Republicans fielded a slightly more acceptable candidate, we would have lost in 2012.
Our message is milque-toast. We don't get it out there with energy and excitement.
It's so frustrating for me. Because we are the Party of the best ideas, but we don't share them so that the voters can see us for just how important we are for the country.
The leadership in the Democratic Party acts as though it has been kidnapped, has its hands and legs tied behind its back and dares not more, speak or offend its captors.
And who might those captors be? How about big donors.
I live in Los Angeles where movie billboards and ads are everywhere.
I saw an ad for a movie, Ready for ...... starring a famous actress who might remind a lot of people of one of our Democratic candidates. I haven't seen the movie. It probably has no parallel or relevance or tie to the Hillary candidacy, but when I saw the billboard, I realized what is bothering me so much about Hilary's campaign.
IT LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE A MARKETING CAMPAIGN, like a product roll-out. Hillary fans are going to hate me for this, but I suddenly saw Hillary not as a person, not as a president, but as a product. Her campaign is like a sales campaign for some breakfast cereal or something.
That first ad was straight out of a breakfast cereal commercial. Eat America's first breakfast tomorrow.
Sorry. This is going to be interpreted as another attack on Hillary. But it has nothing to do with her. It's the way her campaign is being rolled out. It's the Hollywood and Madison Fifth Avenue glitz of it. It really troubles me. A sales campaign, not an election campaign.