Giving the party back to the people

Liberal Oasis notes that it's Howard Dean's tactic of seeking support from actual voters, rather than fatcat donors who are going to want blood in return, that's giving Democrats fits.

Perhaps most disheartening of all are the prissy comments of the party's supposed Great Hope, Barack Obama, who has so far toed the Democratic Corporatist Party line every step of the way:

"As somebody who is a Christian myself, I don't like it when people use religion to divide, whether that is Republican or Democrat," Obama said. "I think in terms of his role as party spokesman, [Dean] probably needs to be a little more careful and I suspect that is a message he is going to be getting from a number of us," Obama explained.

"We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language,"

Yes, that "careful" speech has been so successful for Democrats so far, hasn't it?

You know why Republicans win? Because they fight dirty. The Swift Boat Liars come up with a bunch of bullshit about John Kerry that's now been disproven, now that Kerry has FINALLY authorized his military records to be released -- and he turns the other cheek -- and loses. GOP spokespeople pull the most vile crap out of their asses, and Americans believe it to be true -- and elect Republicans.

Until this genteel, fanning-themselves-with-the-vapors, Victorian strategy the Democrats seem to think is the way to go is finally blown to smithereens by someone like Howard Dean, who speaks the truth to power, the Democrats are going to continue to lose. American young people are going to be sent to die in empire-building wars. Health care is going to become ever more expensive. The air, water, and soil will become ever-dirtier. Jobs will continue to pay less and be harder to find. And the corporatists will continue to get richer on your back and mine.

Howard Dean knows what to do to fight these people, even if the party hacks don't. Therefore, I've donated this morning through Liberal Oasis' fundraising page to help Dean prove to the hacks that we don't need the whining corporate donors who complain when the party doesn't show them enough love. It's time for the party to start showing US some love -- twenty bucks at a time. So if you'd like to prove the sniveling whiners wrong, help me get Dr. Dean's back and show them the power of people.