Reply #30: not gonna happen

[TorchTheWitch]

Bush is going to try to run on Iraq, because his domestic agenda has been a miserable failure.

No, he's going to run on foreign policy issues - make no mistake about it, this election is all about post-9/11 War on Terra. We are at war with two countries and will continue to be at war with those countries at the time of the election. We've got potential war on the way with Syria and Iran. North Korea is a serious threat. Please point out any instance in our nation's history that an election during a time of war the platform was based on domestic policy. It's never happened. It will never happen as body bags always, always, ALWAYS trump wallets.

This is where Dean's strength lies. Dean can attack Bush* on Bush*'s domestic failures (the deficit, medicare bill, education, environment), because Dean has experience governing and dealing successfully with these issues.

This is where Dean has a big problem. His strengths are in domestic policy, he has basically no experience whatsoever in foreign policy, he is running on an anti-Iraq platform, and most of our biggest domestic policy problems (deficit, lost jobs, economy) are all a result of BushCo's disastrous foreign policy. Dean can't discuss domestic policy issues of greatest importance without running right smack back into the foreign policy issues. Clinton was able to run on the "it's the economy, stupid" platform because at that time, it WAS the economy that was the major issue. We were at war with no one. Other countries liked us. We had just won a short war with minimal casualties and were feeling strong in foreign policy. This election's major issue is WAR... war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, war on terror, upcoming war with Syria, Iran and North Korea. We simply cannot delude ourselves that this election is going to be based on anything else other then foreign policy, especially when virtually all of our domestic policy issues point right back to the mistakes made in foreign policy.