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Memo to My Fellow Dems: Let’s Not Get Cocky Folks PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dave Howard   

ImageSo, the only personality on the straight talk express right now is Pam Anderson! 

"I can’t stand (Sarah Palin). She can suck it. And you can quote me.”

And suck it Sarah did, courtesy of Charlie Gibson’s softball questioning.  On the drive home, I was listening. the Fox News L.A. Radio show, the independent (but still VERY right leaning) hosts John and Ken were LAUGHING at her answers while playing back the interview. This is same station that airs Dr. Laura and Rush.   

BUT:

Remember how we laughed at the first Bush/Kerry debate
Remember how we joked about the “pot-ta-toe” thing?
Remember how we giggled at Grecian formula?

We liberals were HOWLING at how stupid the Republicans were/are. Those morons! HAHAHAHAHAH!

We lost.

Now is not the time to get cocky, it is time to get active. While we laugh at “:rednecks who like to shoot shit up,” we have to remember, like it or not. these folks are in this country too and we have to live with them. We have to work with them. 

We remember Bush won, right? He won twice, cheater or not, HE WON. And who is to blame? Here’s a hint: not the Supreme Court, not Ralph Nader, not ballot machines, not butterfly ballots, not people from Palm Beach County, Fla., not hanging chads, not... whatever.

.WE are to blame! WE let it get away. Why? It’s because WE got cocky.. 

We sat around on our oh, so smug, smart asses. Trust me, I have had to learn this lesson FOUR TIMES. I’m not doing it again. I am not getting drunk on self righteousness this year because the hangover is a bitch. This is what we need to do. Get over yourself and sacrifice. Start talking to people who don’t agree with us. Call everyone in your family who will probably vote for McCain, we all got ‘em. This year I will talk to my Dad in Idaho and discuss it intelligently. I will talk to my stepmother. I will urge the girlfriend to call her mother in Texas. I will urge my hippie pal to ring his Libaughian parents and say “This is important to me.” I am going to wedding in Missouri. I will talk to the redneck who likes to shoot shit up at the end of the bar. I will talk to my high school buddies on Facebook who just added the McCain/Palin flair.

I will not reduce myself to name calling.
I will not use the word “idiot”
I will not be a smug smart ass.

I WILL talk with passion and fervor
I WILL get excited about it, but in the contagious way
I WILL be humble.
I WILL be sane. 

I WILL.

Open your discussion and bring your A-game. Not the A-game when you fight with your landlord or your phone company. Your real A-game. 

Bring your “this is the best person I am and ever wanted to be” A-game.Bring your passion.

Folks will respond to that. And, this year, I WILL not end the conversation with “Suck it”

Until after I hang up.

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