It is, after all, about how stuff gets framed and the Repubs have outspent and out-disciplined the Dems when it comes to PR and messaging...
What is infuriating is that every time I hear a Dem operative they admit this yet aren't capable of breaking the culture that has set into the Democratic Party...
I mean, the Repubs indignantly complain about the tax-and-spend Democrats and they rail against "earmarks" but when it comes time to markin' up a spending bill they act like a pack of wolves trying to get their pet projects in the bill... I mean, look at the spending bill that the Senate passed last night... Mitch McConnell, who regularly complains about earmarks, got $650,000 for a study on "genetic technology" for the University of Kentucky... What makes this "double hypocrisy" is that the Repubs are on record of being against that sort of stuff to begin with... I mean, we ain't gonna have no stem cell research but 650 grand for "genetic technology" is okee dokee???