The Dems Can Agree on One Thing - They Have No Message to Agree Upon

There is an unusually brutal assessment of the current state of the Democratic party in a BBC article (yes, I said BBC).

The article, Democrats fail to find a message, is written by Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington.

In it, he points out that the nation plainly re-elected Pres. Bush with over 50% of the vote; something Pres. Clinton never did, and then raises the question why can't the Dems move on.

He answers the question: "They don't know where to go."

"On the Iraq war, for instance. Are they for it or against it?

When it goes badly they are against it, but in the few months last year when elections were first held in Iraq they were rather for it."

And,

"Democrats do not have a message on the key issues of our time. Or, more precisely, they have several mutually exclusive messages."

Mr.Webb references the changes that have taken place in the recent past and argues that universities do not have the power they once did. Additionally, and more importantly in his opinion, the world of news and entertainment "have been blown to bits by technological changes which render them powerless," because of the competition (600 channels because of cable and satellite) and broadband internet.

His summation:

The Democrats need a message and a new way of communicating that message to a mass audience. They have neither.

And do not be fooled by those who say this malaise is structural, at this stage of the electoral cycle there isn't a presidential candidate etc.

No, it is more than that. The American left has faded away.

Only their bumper stickers remain, like cockroaches after a nuclear holocaust.

"Re-defeat George Bush," they whine. Not knowing, not caring that the world has changed.