Showdown: Tar Heels v. Hoosiers!

"The Democrats limp into another round of primaries "

Notice that little bit of spin  at Memo, found it quite offensive.
Not sure who writes the ledes for these little spots, but this was very iregular for this site.  Instead of rewriting it again, I'll just post the email I shot back at them when I read that tripe...
"The Democrats limp into another round of primaries."
Three cajones apiece, and they're limp?
Kind of offensive headlining here, guys, I think "surge" would be more appropo, even "head" would have worked, but "limp" betrays a Kucinich/Naderite in your midst.

Certainly couldn't be a Republican...   One of the most dynamic and historic elections in American history, with voter turnout at record levels, not to mention this is one of the defining moments of that process, and you think we're "limping?"   Using a quarter-billon dollar crutch?   A lot of very intelligent, inspired people will take offense at that callous headline that trivializes, emasculates and,  "cripples" what should be respected as an historic moment in our great American story.

...here's a proposal. For all the REAL Dems amongst us...

Lets take a generic figurehead approach to this, and start talking strategy instead of candidates, with the thought in mind that we will get our candidate elected in November.

What have you folks seen, thus far in this election cycle, that you think we need to emulate in the final stretch, between now and November?

And what have you seen that we need to get rid of?

I, for one, believe we need to look outside existing voters, and concentrate on NEW voters.

Not to ignore the already-active base, I think all of us who consider ourselves in that group need to start reaching out to the non-voters around us. Every day, we need to get out of bed and ponder, "who can I get registered today?"

We all know people who aren't involved in the process, who aren't registered, and there are so many of them they outnumber us, what, 70% to 30%?

If there is any place we can find the power to have a 50-state landslide, it is in these new voters.

And one last thing... all of you need to remember we call ourselves a PARTY! Lets make it one.

Nothing can do more for our chances to bring in those new voters than to make it FUN! If you think that isn't taking things seriously, you are mistaken.

I am desperately serious.

If we can find a way to make this a lot more fun for new people to join (Kerry's Bruce Sporingstien event is the best example I can conjur up, on a national level) we will not only gather in many more members, but make our own jobs easier because we get to enjoy the social networking that it will provide us all.

We need to turn this into a summer-long festival of voter registraton.

Everyone needs to start thinking about what sorts of fun, inviting and inclusive events you might be able to organize, to help bring these new voters into the fold.

And I don't mean inviting a bunch of Democrats over for a cocktail party, I mean those very Democrats organizing a BIG event with lots of entertainment and very few speeches, and inviting everyone they know to come to THE PARTY.

Where they can register to vote, along with the fun stuff. Then maybe they will relate politics to something other than a bunch of stuffy old bosses.