Curt Thompson's AJC (Gwinnett section) editorial

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Seen and spoke with this fellow a few times at local meetings. Hard to argue much with his common sense approach to winning in GA.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/0505/22curt.html

Democrats must offer solutions

By Sen. Curt Thompson
Published on: 05/22/05

The session is over, and it has been about six months since the elections that swept Georgia Democrats out of power for the first time in over a century. As a Democrat in predominantly Republican Gwinnett County, I am often being asked these days, "What now?" for Georgia Democrats. A lot of us are asking the same question. And just like when someone runs off the road, you can see Georgia Democrats standing around, scratching our chins, talking about the best way to get our truck out of the ditch.

A little introspection is a hard thing during a moment like this, but we're fast running out of time to figure out how to get this truck back on the road. The '06 elections are already racing our way. Of the Georgia Democrats I've been talking to, most seem to fall into three groups:

• Those who say '04 was just "a perfect storm," and if we just keep doing the same things we've been doing, the Republicans will eventually undo themselves and we'll be back in power.

• Those who say we've been branded as liberals and we need to get away from that brand and become "Republican Lite."

• Those who say we need to be "real Democrats," and want us to adopt a liberal platform and work hard turning out our liberal base in record numbers to win.

The problem is these groups are all right and all wrong, but they don't seem able to sort it out.