Here we are, a week after the election and already people are shrieking "OMG WE NED SWING VOTERZ!!!11 DEAN IS TEH BAD!!!11" regarding the DNC Chair position.
How many times must a person be beaten over the head before they get it?
SWING VOTERS DON'T WIN ELECTIONS!
Ask John Kerry. He won them over and still lost.
Once again, in Kos' DNC Chair post, we have people insisting you NEED swing voters! You NEED! HAVE TO HAVE OMG!!!
Bullshit.
The myth is dead. Kerry won undecideds. Kerry won Independents. Bush turned out his base like never before and smoked us. We're sitting here in a self-serving circle jerk of misery over it and instantly going back into our old, tired rhetoric.
"We need a Centrist."
"We can't win seats in Red States."
"Purple States hinge on swing voters."
I call bullshit. Kerry played that game and he's going back to the Senate. And no, I don't blame Kerry. I blame US for becoming a bunch of whiney, appeasing, just a little more to the right pussies afraid to stand up and point out a lie is a lie. McCain lost to Bush because he spoke from the hip too much, and Dean got tarred with the same brush. Sure, we all love a maverick who says what he actually thinks, but heaven forbid we run him for President! He might upset Ms. Mary Sue Smith in Peoria!
FUCK Ms. Mary Sue Smith in Peoria!
Here's a wakeup call, boys and girls: We've been triangulating since 1992 and we keep losing seats. Always have, always will (except for the PenisGate backlash in 98.).
We have a base. We have the superior ideas - polls show this time and again. Let's have ourselves a Bullworth moment and wake up the Press and public with a leader who says what he actually means.
We tried it the other way. It lost. Stop beating the dead horse and find a new one.