Reply #55: What is wrong with us?, you ask -- the same thing that was wrong in 2002

[hansolsen]

Running to the middle, taking war off the table by "triangulating the issue and getting to the right of Bush on the war, is exactly what Dems did in 2002. The Dems leadership tried to run on the economy, and on being all sweetness and light -- no controversy, no arguement on the grand issues of the day, just try to slide by and win the election, and leave the issues for later.

That strategy resulted in the Dems having their asses handed to them on a platter. That strategy is what Howard Dean fought against in the primaries, and supposedly gave the Party its spine back. Well, Howard is long gone, and little appreciated, and the DLC wing of the Party is in full control now. We might win but can we govern? We can appoint Justices, but can we really make Iraq right based on kerry's plans to date? And can we really prevent further terrorist attacks in America by triangulating Bush's "grand" plans and simply executing them better? I don't believe it.

Here is our choice as I see it -- Re-elect Bush and put the american people on record in support of the most distrous foreign policy in the nation's history or vote for pig in a poke.