Good letter from a good citizen

Look people: we are not as bad off as the Republicans want us to believe. They've been trying to bum rush us to the door like we're some insignifcant minority. They're on roll but it is not a landslide, that rumbling you hear is just Democrats stampeding for the exits.

We won the Govenorship of Montana. Redder than red Montana. We have to realize that it is candidate driven and campaign driven. When we have candidates that don't campaign there, we lose. We lost in the Red States because we GAVE up. We didn't go there. We CEDED them to the opponents and more importantly: we told every red leaning person in winnable states that we had nothing to offer you. We let Kerry get defined as a Northeastern Liberal in love with the Left Coast Lifestyle. And what did our BONEHEAD leadership do? It campaigned in the swing states and the Northeast and Left Coast. We sent the unmistakeable message: "Yep, we have NOTHING to say or offer to the "red" part of the USA". Bush, the bizarro, draft dodging, 9-11 missin', Iraq bungler then gets to claim, WITHOUT A FIGHT all the red states. And all the people in the border states that identify with the Red States. Did Bush ignore the "blue ocean"? Hell no! He went to NYC and had his damn coronation convention. He gave speeches in California. He even sent Cheney to Hawaii which is BLUER THAN BLUE. The Bush Campaign, very effectively, made it seem like they were willing to go ANYWHERE. They never even acted like they were unwanted anywhere. They painted Kerry as a "leftist, special interest pretender" and then watched his campaign act like it. Kerry was a middling candidate who RAN THE CAMPAIGN THE BUSH TEAM WANTED HIM TO. Kerry the daring? Daring would have been to show up in Oklahoma City and have a rally. Daring would be to go to Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico etc. But Kerry played to the "swing" voters, his campaign acted like it had NOTHING TO SAY TO the red sea. He should have gone right into the red sea and said, "You may have been told who I am and what I say but I am here and I am going to tell you who I am, why I care about you and how I can help you." We ran a bad campaign. Two times in a row our campaign sucked. We got beat by three million votes and a handful of electoral votes because our "war hero" candidate wouldn't go into hostile territory and stand his ground.