Democratic Strategy to Win

If the Democratic Party wants to regain the house and Senate this November, it has to avoid getting trapped in one on one fights with Republican incumbents and wage a comprehensive campaign as a team. They need to attack the entire Republican Party in two ways: First, by pointing out that the party is a fraud. It has violated every tenet of its own philosophy and as the rampant corruption within it proves can no longer be trusted to govern. Second, that it is a party devoted and controlled by only a few: Corporations and Evangelical Christians.

The Democratic Party on the other hand is the party for everyone else. It is the party of fiscal responsibility, small and effective government, honest and transparent government, a clean environment, a women’s right to choose, civil liberties, fair elections, true patriotism and sensible solutions based upon facts not ideology. It has respect for what government can do and therefore governs better than Republicans, who let their disdain for government show by trashing the very institutions that are supposed to make this country safe and prosperous.

The Democratic tent has never been so broad. But this is not a weakness, as unwieldy as managing it might be. It is a giant strength. The Democrats should embrace this tent and find common ground within it. Forget about trying to appease the far right, who will never be satisfied anyway. Democrats need to stand for what they believe in, and speak the truth about the Republican Party. There is no reason to be afraid to trash the majority party. It deserves it and people will be suspicious if they are not held to account.