Why don't Dems pound away time and again that Bush let Bin-Laden escape

[WI_DEM]

I'm tired of Bush labeling Dems as wanting to "surrender" and the media talking about Bush's strong point being "terrorism". Sometimes the logic of the opposition party (the Democrats) evades me. Why aren't they out there (and been out there for some time) every day saying that it was Bush who allowed Bin-Laden to escape! The country and world was united after 9/11 to bring this guy to justice and then Bush diverts attention, troops and money to go into Iraq! That Bin-Lden is still at large is in large measure Bush's fault and Democrats should not be afraid to say so.

[Lowell]

1. Bush's strong point is terra

Afterall we suffered the greatest terror attack in history on his watch. Oh, that's right he was on vacation, Cheney was in charge.

[gully]

2. They also need to mention Clinton's "tough" record on terrorism.

I am right there with you. I tire of the surrender. I'm thinking we suffer from a collective stockholm syndrome?

[aden_nak]

3. Because after 6 years of being Rove-punked, Dems still haven't learned.

Rove's strategy is simple. You don't attack someone where they are weak. You attack them where they are strong. John Kerry? His military service. John McCain, both his military service and his (now extinct) integrity. Al Gore? Hell, any of his achievements will do (including attacking him for helping to clean up superfund sites). But the Democrats never learn. They never understand that if you knock out the one strong issue a candidate has, they have nothing left ot fall back on that isn't weaker.

[blm]

7. Oddly - Kerry's strongest suit WAS his anti-terror work for many YEARS and

long BEFORE 9-11.

The problem the Dem PARTY has is that Clinton is the one who closed the books on Kerry's work so Poppy Bush would no longer be pursued and all his crimes supporting the terror networks and protecting them from being exposed completely by Kerry would go unpunished and mostly UNKNOWN by the American people, thereby setting this nation up for the rule of Bush2, 9-11 and this Iraq war.

[aden_nak]

8. And what did they say about Kerry? That he was weak on terror.

Turn a strength into a weakness.

[blm]

10. Yes. They got away with it because Dem pundits schooled in defending

Clinton for so many years, would never bring up BCCI, the terror bank, and the work it took to investigate it, because Clinton allowed the books to be closed to protect Poppy Bush from further embarassing disclosures.

Read Clinton's book - for someone who reportedly paid utmost attention to everything happening in the world, he SURPRISINGLY has no mention at all of BCCI. Even though the constant bad headlines for Poppy Bush on IranContra, BCCI and Iraqgate throughout his term led to the break of trust with the American people which actually helped Clinton take office in 93.

[blm]

4. Elected Dems abandoned Kerry from the moment he brought up Tora Bora

in Jan 2002, and throughout the campaign.

Only Clark and Cleland would back him up on it during the general election - no big name or elected Dems supported him on that criticism of Bush.

[brentspeak]

5. It's what Kerry -- and the Democrats as a whole -- should have said in '04

If they were smart, the people advising Kerry would have aired a ton of commercials featuring scenes of Bush's 30-day-long vacation, and then 9/11. Instead, they let Bush's laughable claim to being the "anti-terror president" go unchallenged in the public's mind.

[blm]

6. He's talking about BinLaden escaping at ToraBora. JK was on it constantly

since 2002 and brought it up at almost every televised opportunity through to 2004 - but no big name or elected Dems gave him any back up on it, and some even sided with Bush's version of the story.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Because the trail to bin Laden leads back to our CIA. Thats why

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[NNN0LHI]

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