DNC Winter Meeting

You can watch it here live if you make it in time.

Dean is speaking, yay Dean! He just slammed the Republicans on education, elections, and SS in about a minute. That's the Dean I love. He just called Pelosi and Reid speaker and majority leader to be, and he just brought up framing. Thank god someone understands framing. If you don't or don't think it's important, buy yourself a copy of Don't Think of an Elephant here. He also understands including the base rather than using them for donations (Kerry). The plan is to really mobilize people: "All the ideas in the world won't matter to them if they don't see our ideas as relevant to them." He just said "if you trust voters, they will trust us... and the Republicans will never be able to do that."It's true, running things top down from Washington won't win for us, Republicans can't handle decentralization, and that's how we're going to win. The man also understands that progressive politics are more important and are better in structuring a frame than solely liberal policies. "Republicans block progress, we cause progress." Actually I think I'm somewhat paraphrasing that last bit (someone feel free to correct it), but you get the idea. It's a brilliant frame to use. Not a question of conservative vs. liberal, but rather one of conservative vs. progressive.

That just gave me an idea, I'll post on it later.