At this point, it comes down to
us.
The DNC (Howard Dean) and the DCCC (Rahm Emanuel) did a good job, and I'm proud of them, and thankful to them. But in regards to Alabama, they didn't do jack. They didn't lift a finger. And they aren't likely to do so anytime soon.
It is up to us. It is up to us, the disaffected, disheartened, common-sense, freedom-loving citizens of Alabama to take our state back, and by extension to help right our great ship of state by heading it a little bit to the left. The national pols aren't going to help us until they realize we are capable of helping ourselves.
And the good news is that IS very possible that we can do just that.
In House District 3, the completely unknown Democratic candidate, Greg Pierce, got 41% of the vote, despite the fact that he had NO money, and almost nothing resembling a real campaign. Quoting an
Anniston Star editorial:Greg Pierce was a weak candidate. He had practically no support from the national party, little money and little idea of how to carry out a successful campaign.
He could not manage, for example, to return phone calls, e-mails or letters from an editorial board that has endorsed its share of Democratic candidates to this seat for generations. He couldn’t muster a trip to Calhoun County for a sit-down with local Democrats who even offered to buy the man a Coca-Cola.
Nevertheless, he managed to win three of 13 counties in the district, notably winning 14,000 of 27,000 votes in Montgomery County and 4,000 of 6,000 in Macon County.
I'm not foolish enough to believe that it will be easy to turn the bible-thumping state of Alabama blue overnight. But I'm hopeful enough to believe that the recent exposure (for some) of the hopeless hypocrisy of the Republican party provides a priceless opportunity to educate some of our peers.
The Republican Party is a den of thieves and whore-mongers, of liars and hypocritical bastards.
We need to actively identify and recruit prospective nominees for all seven districts. And, yes I said all seven districts. Bud Cramer is almost as bad as a Republican. And while Artur Davis has cast some good votes and done good things regarding black-belt poverty and such, his disdain for basic Constitutional principles is appalling.
Please let us identify seven candidates for the elections two years hence that embody the values that made our country great -- inclusiveness, freedom and liberty. Let's learn to reject
LOUDLY the concepts of exclusion and hatred and fear.
Let us point out to our freedom-loving Republican-voting friends that they have been conned by the biggest, most unprincipled propaganda machine that has ever been built, and that the Republican party is the greatest enemy to freedom-loving people that the world has ever known. Because that is a fact. Let them know the truth.
And while we're at it, let's find the greatest candidates we can for '08. In each and every district. Alabama depends on it, even if it doesn't know it yet. And so does America.