Its was so much more that just an election...

As the election is over I started to take off this blog the things about Kerry. I don't think I'll continue doing that. I think it time for a new blog.

While I decide if I want to start a new one, here's a response I wrote to someone in one of my online yahoo groups when they suggested a ticket for 2008. Enjoy

Hillary and Obamma.

Now there's a real alternative. Want to know the real reason we lost? Because Kerry and the powers that be in the Democratic party have spent too much time trying to out "Republican" the Republicans. Same mistake Al Gore made.

You think they would have taken a clue from the outrage that immediately appeared when Hillary wasn't initally invited to speak at the convention. The Democratic Party is still lead and driven by old white guys (no offense intended).

We need a different outlook, a different strategy and that's because we are different not the same as the Republicans.

Also look at the "exit polls" to get an indication of what really happened in this election,
The surveys show that the number one issue in this election people who answered exit polls said was "stong moral character". Hello!!! Its the Republicans who turned out in record numbers. Cause that's a damn Republican answer. If is was a democrat they would have said the top issue was jobs or security.

Also the Repubs have aligned themselves with the church and God. So if you are anti Repub you're anti God?The church is probably the number one organized structure in this country next to the govenment itself.
Dems used to have unions, but they have lost their effectiveness. And they never were much in exsistance in the south.

Time for us Dems to do a complete overhaul, afterall we're not the party of the old white guys, we're supposed to be the party of everybody else. So lets start with leaders who look like everyone else.

Also the national Democratic party didn't show up here in Pinellas county Florida until August. Three months before the election. I can bet you the Republicans were meeting last year on how to win the 2008 election and beyond. We won't win until the leadership of the Democratic party reflects the makeup of its members and until we can create a long term strategy. You think that the "moral majority" just disbanded and went away. They went underground and have been creating Newt Gingrich types of long term strategies.

Hillary and Obama? Lets do it and start now. Lets not waste our time quibbling about miscounted votes or voting errors. The Repubs have rightly figured out that a close election can't be disputed. And so the only way we'll win is to make sure that the election is a landslide.
Lets start now, but lets not show our hand to the Repubs until the time is right.

Where do we sign up?

Respectfully,
Julie