Corzine's got my vote

[yesthattom]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/14/92124/9571
Summary: Corzine wrote in 2001 a message that is absolutely brilliant and rings of Howard Dean’s message about being proud Democrats, not Republican copycats messages. Now back to 2005 he adds to that:

A progressive, activist government built our highways, the internet, ended segregation, and created our bedrock social contract.  Most great political innovations began at a local level, and worked their way across the country, and sometimes, the world.  So we must return to our roots and build the communities that we want on a local, city, and state level.  Then our case will not just be stated, it will be built for Americans to see.

He then explains that he’s running for Governor of New Jersey to prove it.

Read the whole article. It made me melt. :-)

Comments

Wow

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

First of all, the original article was in 2001, not 1991. The latter would truly have been impressive from a Goldman Sachs executive.

Secondly, man, he's good.

Re: Wow

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I've corrected the yea.r

I don't know why I have 1991 on the brain today.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Sounds like he'd get my vote, but I'm in MA.

I think I'm missing something though; isn't that message basically saying "If you're currently voting republican, I'm completely against everything you support"? Heck, the turn of phrase "social contract"=='commie' to a lot of people over forty, a red flag as it were. Maybe he should check to see if his PR flack isn't taking bribes from his competition.

The republican party thinks publicly funded infrastructure and even just the concept of a social contract itself are all 'evils to be purged' not 'great political innovations'... and they also have a message of "returning to our roots", but for them those roots are a time when owning local newspapers was more effective because poor people couldn't afford to travel, labor disputes could be settled by hiring thugs with clubs, and race issues were the easy street to divide-and-conquer machine politics.

You're pretty good about handing out clue that preaching to the NON-converted is more effective in the long run... what advice would you give him to sell progress to regressives?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

You're pretty good about handing out clue that preaching to the NON-converted is more effective in the long run... what advice would you give him to sell progress to regressives?

None.

People like you and me that have a political philosophy are pretty much freaks of nature. A tiny minority. It's much more effective to talk about your values and vision and let people subscribe to that.

Non-political people, or dare I say "normal people", are not progressive or conservative. They have needs that they want met. Talk about that... not how a particular political philosophy will get them there. A single political philosophy doesn't get people everything they want.

but I'm in MA

[cos]

Sounds like he'd get my vote, but I'm in MA.

In that case, I'd like to recommend Deval Patrick