You're Advising the Republicans....

[RIP Robert H Bork]

My advice would be a fifty state strategy.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Take the gloves off and destroy the Democrats. You didn't beat John Kerry by being nice. John McCain's good manners (compared to the Bush campaigns') didn't do him any good.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

It might be in your case and good for you, but as long as all the racists in this country continue to vote for the Republican party, that perception will exist.

Did it ever occur to you that there are racists who vote for Democrats as well?  Even those who vote exclusively for the Democratic Party?  These perceptions will exist so long as people like you continue to perpetuate them. 

[RIP Robert H Bork]

My advice would be a fifty state strategy.

Why would you want to campaign in states outside "Real America"?

There is no such thing as "real America".

[RIP Robert H Bork]

It might be in your case and good for you, but as long as all the racists in this country continue to vote for the Republican party, that perception will exist.

You obviously believe that racism is racism only when it happens toward non whites.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Why did you have to resurrect this thread?  The absurdity I've just re-read has left me nauseous.

pbrower2a resurrects many threads.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Shortly after the elections, I would have advised them to change a lot of things.  But looking over this thread, it's increasingly clear that the Democrat Party will self-destruct from their own cockiness and self-righteousness, allowing the Republicans to emerge from the embers.  The more things change ...

Cockiness and self-righteousness among the mass support do not lose elections for the party. A reputation for unresponsiveness, corruption, and incompetence among elected leaders and their staffs does. The GOP had the Dubya era to live down  -- and still does.

That is true, but unresponsiveness, corruption, and incompetence, among other things, are often correlated or preceded with cockiness and self-righteousness. Remember that many Republicans thought they had a permanent majority just two short years before they lost control of both houses of congress.

Also, it is unclear how long Bush will hang over the GOP. Hoover haunted the Republicans for decades, yet Nixon and the Watergate Scandal was quickly forgotten which allowed Reagan to be elected in a 46 state landslide.

...and maybe that is because Watergate had nothing to do with economics, and the economic crisis of the late 1970s/early 1980s (which helped Reagan win) took place under Carter, a Democrat?