A contest

[lollardfish]

Your mission is to come up with a 2-4 word statement that should (not does) define the Democratic Party's message to the American people. You then need to have 3-5 bullet points that say what your message would do. Nothing can be longer than about one sentence. Only one of them can be negative (like, throw the current guys out!)

Examples:

The New Deal
- Job training
- Job creation through public works
- Social security/welfare net
- Reinvigorate the morale of the American worker/economy

The Great Society
- End racism
- End poverty
- Beat the Ruskies

Contract With America
- Throw out career politicians, replace with term-limited private citizens
- End big government
- Cut taxes
- Give people jobs, not welfare

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So if you're a democrat (which I am, and I suspect most of my friends here are), what's our message going to be for 2006. I'm not convinced the actual politicians know, at least not in any nice three word phrase which the average voter will comprehend.

EDIT: I posted some amusing responses from (This red sox site)

Comments

[sidhebear.livejournal.com]

I could go into a lot more about this, but the problem I have with it is that we're all calling each other names and nitpicking on some ultimately stupid points at the moment.

The republicans learned one lesson, and they learned it really well.

Marketing.

It's pretty prevalent and obvious every time I turn around, but one thing sticks out.

These guys are craftier than I am.
They don't care about anyone or anything.

Every single fiber of their being is devoted to being first and best.
It's going to continue to be that way until we start looking like a pregnant hedgehog who's been threatened.