It started in earnest yesterday. From Feaux News's Hannity saying that people should be afraid because standing behind Ned Lamont during his victory speech were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Hannity asked if that's who we want to lead the country! The racist pig. Lieberman spoke about "partisan" politics and implied that Lamont's win was because of the far left fringe of the Democratic Party. Kenny Baby, the head of the RNC, talked about the radical left fringe of Democrats who put Lamont into the race. Huh? 52% of those who voted in the CT primary are "fringe?" How many thousands of people is he insulting? We will see the vitrol increase, the smear tactics will run amok. So what should the Dems do?
We and the Democratic politicans from Reid to Hillary to Dean, every single Democrat, need to answer these idiots with strong language. We cannot let this shit stand! Also, when the criminals in the Bush crime syndicate pull out all the stops and try to play the fear card, the Democrats need to call them on it, immediately and loud and as a collective group--they need to say that the fear ploy that worked in 2000 and 2004 is a tired cynical ploy that this country is not buying anymore. Then they need to trot out all those statements made by all the idiots in the Bush administration which proved to be lies, and I mean all of them. Someone in the DNC needs to list those talking points and like the Rethugs, the Democrats need to keep repeating them. Show the videos, catch their asses in the act of lying. It's all documented!! What I fear is that as usual, the Rethugs get to define the debate, define the Democrats, and the Dems stay silent too long or put up a wimpy defense. We can win in November if we hammer those bastards and make them walk the plank with their own words and deeds.