Reply #9: I find that I'm often on the opposite side of people who are critizing the Dems

[John Q. Citizen]

I recall when Reid refered to Harriet Myers as a "nice woman" (or soemthing to that effect) and it drove people crazy.

I thought, well, I've never met her and Harry Reid has, and besides that, being a nice woman and being a great choice for SCOTUS are two completely different things. I thought it was kind of clever and smart. Reid won that round when the Repos went bat shit crazy on her and bush pulled the nomination.

I'm more concerned with long term goals and directions than the comment of the day. However, I'm also quite critical of the Dems (as a whole) , in terms of long term goals and directions.

Health care and election protection are a couple of examples of this.

On those issues though it seems the Dems (as a whole) focus is the comment of the day. They don't seem to have a cohesive stratedgy on these topics, like they did on free trade, welfare reform, telecommunication deregulation..

I would have thunk pre-emptive war, the unitary presidency, and repeated wide spread election fraud would have been impossible, but apparently they were quite doable, given that someone undertook the effort to do them and to do them succesfully. I still haven't heard the top tier of our candidates denouce the doctrine of pre-emptive war, nor have I seen the House pass a resolution condemning the practice. Is it impossible? Would it take too long? Or are the Dems in favor of these things?

That's why I'm of so little faith at this point.