are never going to get it. They must be pushed aside.

And this goes for the DNC. Elections are not a 60 day GOTV exercise. They are about connecting with the people and gaining their trust that you will fight for their interests.

I get fundraising messages every day from the DNC. I have never, ever seen one that says ANYTHING they are committed to accomplishing.

I also agree with the focus group thing.

To this day -- I want to punch the writer and director who changed the ending of Pretty in Pink because some focus group said that she should end up with the dickhead rich guy instead of Ducky

Who knew he'd step up like this?

I sure didn't.

Well done!

It's good he did what his family needed him to do to get better. His life will be based on honesty, and thus, be a much better life than what those who deny reality will ever experience.

Thinking Beau would be proud of him too.

White supremacist addicts, thieves, rapists, and murderers hold the levers.

"Lunch!"

Once again, down-to-earth plain talk wins over consultant speak. Connect with voters in a genuine way or step aside.

and what a lot of us have been smacked down for saying. Not listening to that is why the party is in its current condition, and the country is run by criminal grifters.

Or, as Rudyard Kipling would put it, a "stute" fish.
From: How the Whale Got It's Throat