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05/09/2003 Archived Entry: "Ted Rall hands Democrats the Keys to the Car"
Ted Rall hands Democrats the Keys to the Car
Ted Rall is one of my favorite columnists out there, and here he offers the best advice to Democrats I've seen to date. Forget the high-minded rhetoric and pleasantries, and start kicking ass.
Democratic leaders ought to select their nominee in a smoke-filled room, call off the expensive and divisive primary process and order all other comers to stand down. Forget the union rallies, the badges and the buttons--whoever wins the nomination should invest every dime he can raise on the cruelest TV attack ads this country has ever seen. Go after Bush's ultimate Achilles' heel: run countless loops of the inarticulate Resident's clashes with the English language. "Too dumb to talk," a sinister voiceover reads. "Too stupid to trust." Use time-proven Republican methods, like name-calling: Extremist. Out of touch. Tax and spender. Hates workers. Racist. Homophobe. Corrupt CEO coddler. Idiot. Drunk. Cut to the post-pretzel-incident photo: "America needs a sober president."
Forget ideas--voters respond to the personal stuff. Dwell on the two years Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard. "Brave Americans gave their lives in Vietnam," a 30-second spot should intone as the camera pans over names of the fallen on the black wall in Washington. "Rich kid George W. Bush deserted. This coward snorted coke and drove drunk while other kids died." Who doubts that if Gore had played up Bush's DUI arrest, he would have picked up an extra 500 votes in Florida?
Replies: somebody speaks up.
I think all of the Democratic hats currently in the ring should be tossed out so we can run Ralls in '04.
Posted by lonestar @ 05/13/2003 02:54 PM NY
