Reply #69: Gore never stopped his populist pitch.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

His only fault in my opinion was his second debate performance, way too much "I agree" with the idiot. Remember, for a country that was goaded into thinking that the Clenis' whereabouts were important indicators of morality, Gore did pretty well, winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote.

Listen, none of this (our hand-wringing on how best to appease the idiots -- those who vote against their own enlightened self-interest -- into voting for Dems) will matter much, if the media keeps up a wing-nut/stupid agenda.

The first step towards starting to win is to have Dem media counterbalance the lies that are spewed daily -- you give people (North, South, East, West) the unadulterated truth, they will, in their collective wisdom choose the right path. There will always be idiots, no guarding against that, but we will at least have a comfortable majority voting the right way.

The second step is to get Dems to stand up for each other. I dont recall seeing even one good push-back against the 87b dollar charge from any prominent Dem. Kerry himself was the only one who came close, but he is too old-school patrician for a street fight that the media wants. We need to have our own scrappy media liaisons -- clone Barney (Frank)!

The South is solidly on the stupid side only because most of the poor people are here and they do not have the means that we do of learning what it is that the Rethugs actually do, as opposed to what they say. The reason the coasts are more enlightened I think is because of the relative affluence and attendant access to better news sources, coupled with relatively higher levels of education, which I think is the surest path...