First step to redefining the Democratic Party

The first thing we need to do is stop allowing the right to define us. Furthermore, we need to stop embracing the right's message just because they won the election. Allow me to let you in on a little secret...its not working. We haven't won elections by doing that. Every time we rush to the right to embrace one of their issues to garner votes, we are seen as insincere and pandering. And people would be correct by assuming that.

What we need to do is define ourselves and make it believable. And we do that by looking inside ourselves and inside our party and asking the following questions:

• Who are we?
• What does it mean to be a Democrat?
• What makes us liberals?
• What motivates us?
• What are our values?
• Where do we want to take the country?
• Why is that important?
• How does this relate to every day Americans?

I think if we can answer these questions successfully, we can define our party and clarify our image. We need to know who we are, embrace our values, communicate that to the American public and show them why our vision is better for them.

We need to know who we are before we can get our fellow citizens to accept our vision as a better vision for America. We will not be able to do that as long as we are allowing the Right to control the dialogue and define what Demcrats stand for.