Speaking as a self-appointed representative of the whole of the rest of the world..

[Ebadlun]

Do your best, eh?

We rather keenly felt the difference between Clinton and Bush, and we have been, so far, rather grateful for a sane man in charge of an increasingly insane nation.

We know you're up against an almost surreally persistent noise machine that is both fuelled and gratified by people with a varying range of personality disorders - we also know that the loudest voices are generally the wrongest.

You'll probably lose in November - not much time to change that, but time to start making the argument FOR liberalism.

The fact that a party might be punished at the polls for something as incontravertibly benign as HCR shows how far that argument is from being won - the Dems have won the odd election since 1972, but so far they've lost the argument.

[ProSense]

1. "You'll probably lose in November - not much time to change that

...but time to start making the argument FOR liberalism."

Is this a pep talk?

When did liberalism lose the argument?

"the loudest voices are generally the wrongest"

Given this OP, I'll have to agree with that.