"My opponent is a wage busting, job outsourcing, Pro-Nafta Free Trader, loyal to corporations".

[Union Yes]

If a Dem candidate ran on that. Ran campaign commercials with that message.

Add to that..

"My opponent supports wage busting policies that are leading to the downfall of America's working class."

"My opponent supports outsourcing American jobs to China and India."

Imagine if Dems started running on similar themes.

Paint their opponents as Pro-Nafta middle class killing Free Traders.

Paint the GOP as the anti-worker party. The party that punishes hard work with low wages and job outsourcing.

Populism is the Dem parties last hope.

Dems that reach out to populism win elections.

Coakley didn't reach out to populism. See the results.

Time for Dems to call out the GOP nationally and embarrass them.

Why does the GOP want to punish the theory of working for a living?

Why does the GOP want to end good wages and drive us back to low paying jobs that cannot sustain our lives?

Paint them as the Serfmasters that they are.

[dflprincess]

1. Unfortunately, it could be used as a primary ad as well

when running against a DLC/Blue Dog type of Dem.

[havocmom]

5. a-yup. But that might be the wiser way to go. Primary with good DEM-value candidates

Get back to offering American voters a real choice. The only problem: are enough of the voters actually paying attention and thinking critically? The bad pols got in somehow in the first place. Too many voters have let others do their thinking for them. Others go a long to get along as critical discussion seems to get shouted down. Dissent gets intimidated, and it happens in places it shouldn't too.

[Union Yes]

8. A Progressive should use it against a DLC'er in a Dem primary. nt

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[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. "OBAMA the magic Negro," eh?

Run along, child.

[Jamastiene]

12. Actually...how would that be unfortunate?

I mean, it could be good. Primaries are where we have more power to get real liberal/progressive candidates elected....unless you just want Blue Dogs.

[dflprincess]

15. Unfortunate in the sense that there are candidates who call

themselves Democrats that such an ad could be used against. If our candidates/elected officials were true to what the ideals of the party have been, we would not have to consider using it for anything but a general election.

[scheming daemons]

2. now to be followed by... "This message brought to you by Exxon"

[rwenos]

3. Much like a Scab, I'd Say

Are these Free Traders much different from the Scab?

"After god had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He
had some awful substance left with which he made the SCAB....
A SCAB is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water
logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly & glue....
When a SCAB comes down the street, men turn their backs,
angels weep in heaven, & the Devil shuts the gates of Hell to
keep him out....
Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared to a SCAB. For
betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A
SCAB has not.
A STRIKE BREAKER IS A TRAITOR
TO HIS GOD, HIS COUNTRY, HIS FAMILY
AND HIS CLASS."

--Jack London

Ah, to focus such energy.

[Union Yes]

9. I bookmarked that quote and am planning an upcoming OP on 'scabs'.

Thanks for adding!

Solidarity.

:patriot:

[salguine]

4. Seems like most Democrats AND Republicans could run on that.

[OHdem10]

6. The Centrists DLCer Third Wayers, whatever could not run on

some of this. Conservatives and Free Market Fundamentalists.

[OHdem10]

7. Could this be some are quick to try to squelch Populism.

[Jamastiene]

13. That is why we need to sing Populism from the roof tops...

make the message HEARD whether corporatists want it or not. We have to become relentless with it if we want to ever be heard.

[Union Yes]

14. Exactamundo!

:fistbump:

[tammywammy]

11. k&r n/t

[anonymous171]

16. Yep. Left wing populism always beat Right wing faux populism

In fact, it is the ONLY thing that can beat Right wing faux populism.