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July 01, 2003

Daily Kos: My conversation with McAuliffe

This is another piece that I'll probably be refrencing soon in an entry I'm going to write about the sad state of the Democrats. I posted recently at my main blog about how I have many sympathetic feelings toward at least liberals, if not Democrats themselves.

Daily Kos: My conversation with McAuliffe

Excerpts (McAuliffe is the first speaker, Kos the other):

"I'm in Minnesota. Just did a great event -- had two tractor trailers with 40,000 pink slips to symbolize the jobs lost under Bush every month." McAuliffe was pumped!

"Where there any elected officials with you?"

Pause. "No. But I had the chair of the Minnesota Democratic party with me."

"Why weren't there any elected officials with you?"

Even longer pause. Finally, "I guess they're not as aggressive as we are."

And that's the problem with our party. The party itself is trying, it really is, to take the war to Bush. But it is our elected officials that live in mortal fear of the slightest whiff of anything Bush.

...

"You know what?" I said, "A lot of people I talk to every day, who comment at my site -- they won't aggressively support the party until the party starts acting like an opposition."

McAuliffe could only agree, "I know. We're trying."

I then launched into my spiel about how the blogosphere could help drive new political activism on behalf of Democrats, how blogs like dKos attracted people who might not otherwise participate in the political process, and how it was in the Democratic Party's interest to nurture the lefty blogosphere.

McAuliffe asked point blank: "How do you think we should do that?"

Kos is collecting suggestions, FWIW, and posted some good ideas himself. It's all there at the Daily Kos.

Read It Rating: 7
Left/Right Rating: L6
Freedom Rating: 0
Learning Percentage: 45%

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