Soon after the 2004 election, the brilliant Molly Ivins told us the story of how a Texan farmer cures a dog from killing chickens. When a dog has a taste for chicken, he takes the recent kill and ties it around the dogs neck for a few days. This cures the dog of its taste for chickens post haste.
She concluded the story with the idea that voting Republican is kind of like the dog killing chickens. Sometimes, you just need to live with that vote for awhile, without interference, in order to destroy the taste for voting Republican.
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There's a lot of griping on this site about the spineless, silent Democrats. Now I'm not saying this is their plan....they likely are spineless. But is it possible that staying silent for the time being is good "strategery"? If the Democrats were softeniing the edges of the Republicans at every turn, the public would never get the full effect of dead chicken wrapped around their collective necks....and it appears that even for the diehard, the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
Here's my 2 cents. I don't protest the silence of the Demorats at this point in time. The Republicans are hanging themselves at every opportunity. But come 2006, they had better have a cohesive, coherent and compelling alternative vision to articulate or we'll be wearing that dead chicken for 2 more looooong years.
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