What about this as a winning theme? "LETS GET THINGS BACK TO NORMAL"

[norml]

I think a lot of people would be glad just to get things back to normal.

What do you think?

By the way, this is not a word play on my screen name.

I really mean it.

Normalcy is not a bad slogan for a troubled world.

[Bluebear]

1. Per-fect. n/t

Nominated. Simple, direct and who can't relate to it?

[Dogmudgeon]

2. I like it, too

But let's remember Bruce Cockburn's warning: "The trouble with Normal is it always gets worse."

:)

--p!

[Journeyman]

3. Critics would trip it up with comparisons to Warren G. Harding's. . .

1920 campaign promise of a "return to normalcy."


"Warren Harding, publisher and editor of the Ohio Marion Star, was active in politics throughout his life. He served as an Ohio state Senator (1900-1904), as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1904-1906), and as a United States Senator (1915-1921). While Harding was serving in the Senate, the Republican party nominated him as their presidential candidate for the election of 1920. Harding's campaign promised a return to "normalcy," rejecting the activism of Theodore Roosevelt and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson. Voters responded to his genial nature, impressive stature, and bland message; he won by a landslide."


http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfexpe.html

[norml]

7. Since Warren Harding won by a landslide maybe "return to normalcy"

isn't such a bad slogan after all.

I was aware of Harding's use of it and of course wouldn't put it in exactly the same words.

[annabanana]

4. a transparent voting system would go a lo-o-o-ong way

to make ME feel "normal".

[Dinger]

5. I Like It

It's perfect.

[inthebrain]

6. It sounds good.....

but its really just more catchy rhetoric. People want a democratic party that now goes beyond catchy slogans.

ie "hope is on the way".

It needs to go to initiatives that help real people. If I was to choose a slogan it might sound some think;

"We're the Democratic Party. We dont make compromises with white collar criminals and neither should you."

I don't know.

Seriously though. Return to normal means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. We need to take into a count that the booming economy of nineties really didnt effect a lot of people. The recession that many are experiencing in the Bush economy is hyped mainly because it effected the investor class.

Those people that didnt do so hot in the ninteties probably dont see a difference in the new millenium. There's just more people added to the mix now.

A return to normal really doesnt mean much. I dont consider returning to the Clinton years a return to normalcy. Things may be twice as mad as they were then but I wouldnt consider the nineties the age of normalcy either.

Democrats made a lot of compromises they never should have compromised on in the first place. Welfare Reform, for starters, should be an embarassment to this party and we need to face up to that.

[UrbScotty]

8. Good thought.

I'd nominate this thread, but it's a little old.

[Booster]

9. I really like it - I would even settle for "Let's get thing back to

semi-normal" at this point.

[omega minimo]

10. What's normal?