It’s clobbering time!

Let’s face it, Democrats have been absolutely horrible at negotiating.  Maybe we should be spending some more time watching the World Series of Poker.

Democrats foolishly confuse DEBATE and NEGOTIATE.  These are completely separate Sciences.

Democrats spend large amounts of time trying to articulate the intricacies of why their plans have merit, while listening to the criticism, waiting to address them one by one.

Why don’t they want to negotiate?

The other side doesn’t care about the debate.  Once they have stated their objections, they have already established the base of where they will negotiate from.  Trying to move them from this position is almost pointless, since they view compromise as weakness, while Democrats view it as Democracy.

Mainly it is because the modern-day Republican party doesn’t believe in Government, PERIOD. The policies that they do come up with are a result of selling out to the political contributors (mostly Corporations and the wealthy) just so they can stay in power doing nothing.

But we can learn something from them.

Negotiating comparison:

The GOP starts from a “we will not compromise our principals” approach (and usually stays there).

The Dems start from a ‘we will compromise our principals’ & ‘meet me half way’ point, look to our nemesis for approval, then end by giving up 95% of what the GOP wants.

UNCOVERS:

Consistently, the current Democratic leadership has been reactionary, soft, timid, weak, scared, easily distracted, and in the end feckless.  Now, even worse than that… they start all negotiations from a point of compromise!

This is the complete opposite of how the Republicans negotiate.

When asked a question about Social Security, Health Care, Tariffs, Medicare, Military Spending, Taxes, Labor, Trade, etc., you need to say the following:

“We will not compromise our principals!”

You can’t make a stand if you let your OPPONENT define what YOU stand for!

When you have already compromised your principals before you even get to the negotiating table, your opponent will roll right over you, and will know how to use your timidity against you in any future PR war.

FOLLOW-UP:

1) After so many years of crappy, half-measured legislation, LEARN FROM IT!

2) DO NOT, I repeat, NEVER indicate that you are willing to negotiate your position.  In fact, insist that your OPPONENT needs to Compromise THEIR position.

3) Answer questions with pointed questions.

Example:

• Question: “Are you willing to negotiate with Republicans on the Bush Tax Cuts?”
• Answer: “We will not compromise our principals.  We have huge Trickle-down Republican deficits. Who are you going to tax & get money from, the already squeezed middle class, the working poor?”