“Democrats for Kovach” Building Momentum
I’ll admit that it has been a slow start for “Democrats for Kovach.” In part because the spelling of Kovachs’ name was an unfathomable mystery for so many, and in part because people don’t fully understand the goals of the “Democrats for Kovach” movement. Let me clear that confusion up with the first draft of the “Democrats for Kovach” manifesto. This is an open source manifesto, so please take part in honing the “Democrats for Kovach” manifesto in the Comments section.
Democrats for Kovach Manifesto
1) “Democrats for Kovach” do not want to elect Tim Kovach or any other Republican to public office. Kovach is a wingnut cyrpto-teabag sympathizer and worst of all, a Republican. Recent history is replete with horror stories of the downstream catastrophes that attend electing Republicans. Republican “trickle down” economics which depend on cutting taxes on our wealthiest citizens and corporations in the hope that the money will be used to “create jobs” has created the dire economic situation that we are in today. Calls to continue Republican economics through “austerity” are nothing more than advocating for a middle class in continuous decline and MORE economic failure.
2) “Democrats for Kovach” do not want to elect Democrats to office who promote a destructive Republican agenda under the ruse of being “bipartisan” (I’m looking at you John Carney). Delaware is a blue state and deserves to be represented in Congress by a Democrat who can be counted on to uphold basic Democratic Party principles by being vocally in favor of a social safety net, and a strong economy built on progressive taxation. It is our firm belief that any incumbent Demcorat running as an unapologetic Democrat can easily win re-election in Delaware given built in registration advantages and the continuing popularity of Democratic policies among Delaware voters.
3) Knowing that TIM KOVACH has no chance in hell of beating John Carney, “Democrats for Kovach” will use the upcoming election for the House of representatives, to continually remind the candidates that Delaware is a Democratic state which deserves democratic representation in Congress.
That’s the basics. Nobody is primarying Carney, so unless he changes his tune, the only reasonable course of action is to thrown away a protest vote on the pitiful candidacy of Tom Kovach.
4) Democrats for Kovach won’t actually vote for Kovach.
I think we have to hold our cards a little closer to our vest than that.
http://democrats4kovach.wordpress.com/
Oops. Too much transparency?
The goal is for Carney to win by one vote.
Failing that, Kovach winning by one vote will also be acceptable. You can’t play this game unless you are willing to roll the dice.
If Kovach wins, this committee will immediately dedicate itself to finding a real Democrat to defeat him in 2014. If Carney wins, this committee will dedicate itself to finding a Democratic primary candidate for 2014.
Either way, the practice of Delaware electing blue dogs by 60%+ margins has to end. We need better choices.
There will also need to be a concerted PR campaign to explain to the brain-dead media that the opposition to Carney is from the left, not from the right.
It has always been unthinkable to support a Republican to get rid of a bad Democrat – until Democrats like John Carney reduced the difference to a short hop.
Honorary chairman is Harry S. Truman:
Great choice for honorary chair. Give ’em Hell Harry vs. Give ’em a back rub Carney.
Geezer, I just wish I knew someone with an AM talk radio show that I could call on monday morning to talk up “Democrats for Kovach” ?
Just show up to Carney events with three friends holding large “Democrats for Kovach” signs and you will have all the media coverage you want.
What about Scott Whatshisface who ran last time on a platform of space rockets or something? Is he not running again?
Truman as chair is especially appropriate, since Harry was the very first person to sign up for Medicare, which Carney seems to be ready to throw under the bus.
Three friends. good one!
OK, maybe you can just bring some inflatable HOV lane dummies and move them around a little.
You make a strong point though. Perhaps the no-vote tactic should be back on the table. It may be more effective to appeal to Democrats’ apathy than to their activism.
The only little bit of leverage we peons have left is in the voting booth. It is politics 101. Give me what I want or no vote. And believe me, what “Democrats for Kovach” want is not unreasonable.
BTW did anyone see Senator Coons on Meet the Press? I wonder if Austerity is going to save us?
I have met and had discussions with both Carney and Kovach. My personal impression was that Kovach was much friendlier and genuine and Carney is a chameleon in the same mold as Mike Castle.
Yeah, but Carney went to Dartmouth. 🙂
Who said this? “(we need to) extend tax cuts for all Americans while we work to determine a long-term policy for reducing our national debt.”
If you said that John Carney was responsible for that illogical Republican sounding gibberish, you’d be correct.
“We need to keep striking ourselves in the forehead with this hammer, while we continue to investigate the source of our terrible headaches.”
Carney 2012 = Mike Castle 2008
It was from John Carney’s full GOP sounding Contract on the Economy, from his website.
And he brings it home with something taken directly from Grover Norquist. AN AWESOME DEMOCRAT WE HAVE REPRESENTING US!!!! Congrats Delaware.
Any plan that sets out to “free up capital for hiring” is bullshit from the start.
All these small business benefits and tax credits will sound a lot better during an upswing. But they won’t create the upswing by themselves.
In other Democrats for Kovach” news. The blog: http://democrats4kovach.wordpress.com/
…got its first comment today, so I would expect Carney to be revising all of the tax cuts malarkey out of his talking points fairly soon.
I can’t get enough of that Truman quote. You rarely see the entire thing verbatim. In fact, I love it so much here it is again. Give ’em hell, Harry! you purist, you!
However much you like the quote, it is laughably incorrect. People elect phony Democrats over genuine Republicans all the time.
In a competitive race, one in which incumbency or lopsided fund-raising is not an issue – Truman’s quote holds up very well.
A1 is right. When you come right down to it, I mostly like the part where Truman says “I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign. “
No he isn’t.
Do you mean like the Carney-Urquhart race where incumbency and lopsided fund-rasing weren’t issues and the phony dem beat the genuine republican? Or what about the Obama – McCain race?
By the way, Truman did not qualify his quote when he said it. And it still ain’t true when you try to.
Yes it is.
You people just can’t stand prosperity. Delaware and in fact the Delaware democratic party will never elect a progressive to congress. How do you think Mike Castle got elected all those years. And if it weren’t for the perfect storm in the republican primary, Castle would have beaten Coons(hardly a Progessive} like a rented mule. Get over yourselves. If you really want to advance your values, run for the general assembly or support somebody running for office. With respect to Democrats For Kovach and all those attracted to it John Fowles in his novel The Magus has a wonderfully apprpriate quote “Cynacism masks the inability to cope”
Yeah. I’m so upset about all this prosperity that tax cuts have ushered in. That’s it.
Despite similar-sounding names, “Republicans for Kovach” are not our allies.