It could happen!

I've been preaching this as well.
**sigh**

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like the campaign is only between Labor Day and Election day. The TNGOP recognizes that the campaign is FOREVER. We should come to recognize this too.

When we stop, we create a vacuum that the GOP can exploit. I just don't get why they don't get it.

Yesterday, we learned our President met "in the tank" with the Joint-Chiefs. Who knows what they said or what they decided. What we know is our President is presidenting and taking the threats we face seriously.

What do we know the TNDP leadership is doing, achieving or planning? We don't.

If we can know what our President is doing in the most secure location on planet earth, then TN Dems deserve to be able to follow the story of our party's progress. Right now, there is no story of progress. There is only silence. This party cannot afford to continue to operate in a 1995 mode of communicating in 2009.

Again, I don't think it's always necessary to respond to everything. Maybe it is when you're in a campaign, but if you're not, you might just allow yourself to be dragged down in the mud.

Hobbs and some others might be a little over-confident right now, although the disaster in the House should have been a warning that nothing's certain.

Playing smart doesn't always mean playing along, or playing a game where you allow the opposition to write the rules, or even playing the same game.

The more the TNGOP keeps talking, the more it exposes itself. If your opponent's digging a hole for himself....

They may be digging holes, but we keep falling into them.

Why is that?

The county parties will soon have their reorganization conventions and then we can see what Forrester has to work with across the state. If we keep electing the same folks to run the party in the counties we will have the same results again and again. It seems we just keep recycling them to different positions. Look around at the Democratic party, we have county chairs, that are on the state executive committee and so on, maybe all the way to the DNC. It seems they are so in charge they have multiple positions. Why? Are they over dedicated? Maybe no else is interested? Are they control freaks? For what ever reason to me it is like we are not running at full staff just a few people doing everything. Would it not be better to have one person in one position and open the other position to someone else. There would at least be more input and more people involved.
It is a shame we dont know what is going on in our party, the TNDP site has not changed in months except to let us know Obama and Forrester were elected. It could use a serious makeover too. Maybe R. Neal could help with that, Knoxviews seems fairly well managed and interesting.

You never hear pushback from anybody in the TN Democratic Party. The only place you hear assertive and proud support for the party's values is in the blogosphere.

But remember that it was that way nationally until 2003 as well, when Howard Dean start channeling the blogosphere's anger into the mainstream. At first he was ridiculed and marginalized. But then others took up the mantle and the Democrats soared back into power.

It really does start with us. And it starts with getting good elected officials at all to make the case.