Candidates have come and gone in Pennsylvania's 2006 Senate race, but I keep my eyes on the prizes. And so, too, must you stay focused with me--with us.
I will never be intimidated for ours is a citizen campaign in the truest sense of the word. The Party establishment can't touch me--they can't touch us.
In fact, after trying to ignore our successful outreach campaign in Southeast Pennsylvania (November-December 2005), and after wanting to laugh at our statewide organizing feats (January-May), establishment figures and unwitting surrogates now try to attack us, and the values we stand for.
I heartily welcome such attacks, for they are the true measure of our having arrived. Each and every day we we take a step upward and forward, regardless of what is being dished up by a political elite that last won a full-term U.S. Senate election in 1964! In fact, the other side's consultants, handlers, and pollsters play into our strengths, for what binds us is truth, integrity, grit, resourcefulness, and a winner's mentality.
And what follows the attacks on our progressive politics? Why, the final, triumphant strokes....triumph for office, triumph for values, and triumph for a rescued Party, a revitalized nation, and a restored global order.
Democracy is our credo; justice is our purpose; victory is our goal. United victory in the May 2006 Democratic primary. Resounding victory in the November 2006 general. The victory of progressive politics restored--at all levels--by a citizen campaign, a grassroots campaign, an Internet campaign, an issue-centered campaign, a values-driven campaign, an 'inspired message' campaign, and a people-first winning campaign.
We the people...are so disgusted with 'politics as usual' that we stand on the backs of past liberators and heroes and, by their example, demand a new beginning...demand a Party we can all be proud of...demand a government that protects our rights...and demand that we become a respectful nation among nations, as we have been at our greatest moments of glory.
The beginning is now...the future is now. Let's get to work now!
...as we all keep our eyes on the prizes.