Roger Burbach of the reliably leftist Pacific News Service has a suggestion for the Democrats, Dazed Democrats Could Look to 'Lula':
Thunderstruck Democrats should look south of the border, to Brazil, for an example of how to win the hearts and minds of voters.
Nine days prior to the U.S. elections, Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva overwhelmingly won the Brazilian presidency with 61 percent of the vote and turned the Workers Party into Brazil's leading political organization. In the campaign, the Workers Party, like the Democrats in recent years, moved to the center.
But the Workers Party did not abandon its core, progressive principles.
Well, Al Gore is shuffling hard in the lookalike race, and Nancy Pelosi undoubtedly has a great affinity for the party symbol,
but the San Francisco Dems should just quit fooling around and follow their hearts:
