A Democratic Reagan

This is the what the Dems need, a donkey version of Ronald Reagan. It obviously worked for the Republicans, so why not give it a try?

Someone who is committed to the homeland first. Workers first, corporations second. Someone who will work to fix the broken border situation, adopt a defensive isolationist tone when it comes to world affairs, stop the desire for empire and domination.

Reagan, while stubborn, was committed to rebranding government after Jimmy Carters failed micromanaging. Big, bold ideas are what we may need. The Bush era has given us Woodrow Wilson squared plus Hardingesque domestic policies. Bush has divided the country into two, dismissing urges to find a cause to bring all americans together. C'mon, Bush in the same league as FDR, Lincoln and JFK?

The Dems need to be the perveyours of competent, smart and above all concerned government. They should nominate someone in 08 who has no questions circling about them. We should know where they stand, for better or for worse. This nominee should fight for us, no one else. I'd take the sunny optimism of the Reagan years over the rightly pessimistic times we live in now.

The only people that stand in the way of this grand vision for a renewed, serious Democratic party are Bob Schrum, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy and the rest of the institutionalized Dems who have been comfortable playing the game.