Christian Democratic Party proposal

It seems to me that the opposition leaders has backed themselves into a somewhat preposterous corner. When the Christian Democratic Party, a leading party in the Georgian political system, put forward a list of demands as a 'precondition for dialogue,' even this list (see below) was rejected by other opposition leaders.

Salome Zourabichvili, leader of the Georgia’s Way Party, said: "We are standing here not for a dialogue but for achieving Saakashvili’s resignation.”

Eka Beselia of the Movement for United Georgia Party said: “If the government undertakes those steps [put forth by CDM] that will be good, but it won’t remove our demand on Saakashvili’s resignation.”

List put forward by the Christian Democratic Party (CDM): citation here

• Resignation of Chairman of Supreme Court, Kote Kublashvili;
• Resignation of Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Levan Tarkhnishvili;
• Rerun of Imedi TV to its legal owners – family of late tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili;
• Granting a license to Tbilisi-based pro-opposition Maestro TV allowing the station to broadcast through satellite;
• Replacement of the current board of the public broadcaster;
• Setting up of a five-member monitoring team through an agreement between the key political parties, which will monitor balanced and unbiased coverage of the developments;
• Setting up of a monitoring team through an agreement between the key political parties, which will consider complaints filed against the police over violations related with right of expression and free movement.

Where can you go from here? Saakashvili isn't going to resign, and what are you going to do about it? Violence? Shutting down the capital city?

Stop thinking about five minutes ago, and start thinking about five years from now! I just wish that one of these political parties would actually use some brain power to think about the actual problems of the country, and present alternative solutions to the general population. If the opposition parties treated Georgians as intelligent people themselves, by giving them a choice between leadership and policy models, this would become a dangerous opposition. But instead, these political parties, 13, 15, 17, however many there are, simply use Georgians as numbers on the picket line.

With stupid rhetoric like, "the President must go," with the logic that, "if we have x number of protesters it means we're right" opposition leaders are disrespecting the political intelligence of Georgians, and they will never get the numbers they could if they actually appealed to common sense.