Volume I No. 32
 11-06-02
 "Disaster! Democrats Lose The Senate!" 
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2002

 November 5th, 2002 is going to go down as a date of ignominy for 
 Democrats. From the East Coast to the West Coast there were numerous 
 humiliating defeats of Democratic candidates for everything from County 
 Executive, to state Governorships, and the U.S. Senate. Even Walter 
 Mondale, the ex.Vice President, and Democratic nominee in 1984, lost 
 his bid for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Paul Wellstone. If the well-liked
 if not beloved, old-warrior Walter Mondale couldn't win. 

 This stands as a very bad omen.

 The political repercusions of November 5th are going to reverberate across 
 the U.S. landscape for a long, long, time.

 What went wrong?

 Perhaps Tuesday's election results are the lingering effect of a post 9-11
 mentality. George Bush has the advantage of being the incumbent in office,
 and of launching a somewhat effective campaign against Al Qaeda, and
 Muslim Fundamentalist terrorism world-wide. The democratic candidates
 for office this election year were not very successful in changing the 
 pre-election dialogue towards domestic issues. Bush campaigned against 
 Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, North Korea, and global terrorism, and the electorate
 listened. Republican candidates benefited from all of this Rambo-ish 
 chest-thumping, as the American public tuned out the Democratics to a
 degree no one could have imagined, beforehand.

 So much is at stake. The U.S. Supreme Court with its aging justices, 
 { an already conservative court! } stem-cell research, judicial nominees,
 just to name a few. And you can rest assured that the President, with the
 newly Republican-controlled Senate will do as much damage as possible
 before the next election in 2004.

 There are a couple of important things that Democrats must rethink before 
 that time arrives. Democrats must re-embrace their own political heritage,
 and stop trying to become psuedo-Republicans. There is no need for the 
 electorate to vote for a Democrat in Republican clothing, if an actual 
 Republican is what they really want. Such straddling the fence, only 
 weakens the identity of the Democratic Party, and confuses the electorate.

 It is a bad strategy.

 If the battle cannot be won today, it can be won tomorrow.

 The Democrats desperately need some new blood. Al Gore. Do not run 
 for President in 2004. You could not even win your home state. If you had, 
 you would actually be President right now.

 Tom Daschle keep up the good fight. Even if your aspirations aren't to the 
 Presidency, you have done an excellent job of bringing the good fight to the 
 Bush Republicans. It's only that you need new ideas. And new voices to
 help bring those ideas to the people.

 And it goes without saying that the Democrats must become more visibly
 inclusive. The Republicans actually have included minorities in high cabinet
 positions at the state and national level. Yes, they are merely tokens, but 
 the effect is devasting to Democratic aspirations. Minorities in prominent
 offices in Republican cabinets only heightens the feeling amongst those same
 minorities that remain loyal to the Democrats, that the party the party talks
 one way. -- And later the same-old, same-old, tap dance is all that happens.

 Where is the follow-thru?

 In a country as closely divided along party lines as this one, cynicism in the 
 Black, Latino, and Asian communities towards Democratic canditates who 
 promise but do not deliver, is something the party simply can not continue
 to ignore. It is time to act on those promises! Make the actions match the
 words. Will 2004 yield another all white male political ticket to compete 
 against George Bush? This cannot be permitted to happen. The democratic
 electorate must be energized. And the old formula is failing badly.

 November 5th 2002 is a date that will be remembered fondly by Republicans,
 and hated by Democrats. But the loss of the Senate, and of electoral momentum 
 to Bush's Republicans can be the proverbial blessing in disguise. The Democratic 
 leadership must become more focused, and relentlessly aggressive against 
 every single failure of the current Republican administration. Let nothing slip 
 by unnoticed.

 We cannot allow the war against Al Qaeda to weaken Democratic resolve. 
 Bush and his Far-Right Republican idealism that will attempt to take this 
 country back to a more unpleasant time and place, are as big as a threat to 
 what the United States can and should be, as any enemy on a distant shore.

 The gloves must remain on. The battle for America has just began.
 

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