Democrats need to be identified with change

Digby summarizes the strategy memo from "insider Dem establishment polling outfit, Democracy Corps run by none other than Carville and Stan Greenberg."

In essence the memo validates what the blogosphere Democrats have been saying (at high volume) all this year. A key element - Any discussion of Iraq at all causes support of Republicans to fall. Add demands for accountability to that, and the Republican support falls even further. Include promises to investigate how the money to contractors in Iraq has been spent and the Republicans are even deeper into the whole.

So why haven't the Democratic leaders gotten the message? Personally I think it is because they are attempting to copy successful techniques from winning politicians and over the last two-and-a-half decades, those politicians have been overwhelmingly conservative Republicans. Combine that dynamic with the revolving door for Democratic election strategists regardless of their record of success, and the entire culture of Washington Democratic leadership has taken on a very right-wing ting because they have never seen left-wingers winning.

Now they are afraid to change. They are locked into the passive lean-to-the-right losing ideas.

So go read Digby. Then look at what we need to do as a Party to win Congress back in November.