Liberals are learning from us...

WARNING: Liberals are learning from us. They have started a new organization called the New Policy Institute (NPI)...

Washington Post:

...the new group will study what the rise of the conservative movement, anticipated demographic changes in the country and the "post-broadcasting" world of new media mean for Democrats' hopes of winning elections.

"Until we can really get our act together and win elections, all the policy white papers aren't going to do us a lot of good," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, whose Daily Kos is one of the most popular political blogs on the Internet and who is an adviser to the institute.

Before you laugh at this, keep in mind that in the 1960s, conservatives were big time losers. Then, leaders like Morton Blackwell and Paul Weyrich started studying how to win. They studied what liberals had done, and formed organizations like Heritage and The Leadership Institute to teach conservatives how to organize and how to communicate. And it has worked! Look at how far we've come in thirty years...

Now I know there isn't a direct analogy between what conservatives did in the 60s and what the liberals are trying to do right now. But my point is that we should not take groups like this too lightly. We can't afford to relax. To paraphrase Satchel Page, "Don't look back...somebody might be gaining on you."