The Democratic Response: My Worst Fears Realized

[IndianaGreen]

The Democratic Response: My Worst Fears Realized

Arianna Huffington

All my worst fears about the Democratic response to the State of the Union address being given by Virginia Gov Kaine were realized tonight when he completely failed to take on the president on his greatest vulnerability -- the war in Iraq. “Second guessing is not a strategy,” Bush said -- but Kaine didn’t even bother to second-guess.

Instead, he told us “together, we can do better” (I swear he did!) and that “our greatest need is to heal our partisan wounds.” Now if I can only figure out how to heal these fresh wounds on my wrists, we’ll be fine. At least, together we’ll be fine.

While Kaine was droning on, I closed my eyes and imagined Jack Murtha giving the response, someone with the authority to do much more than second guess -- to offer an alternative strategy on Iraq and the war on terror, as opposed to Kaine’s program of “service and competent management.” And I thought “competence” had gone out of vogue with Michael Dukakis.

As for the Kaine bromide, “common sense solutions to common problems” -- who came up with that one? Fire them immediately. Please.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-democratic-response-_b_14888.html

[phantom power]

1. It really was terrible.

No passion whatsoever. He was like a $#%@#! pod-person. Some of the Dems they interviewed right after the speech were better.

[sarcasmo]

2. What a poor choice, she is right Murtha would have been the best choice.

[emc]

3. Change the name of democratic party

Im totally disgusted----I mean, who came up with the decision to have this guy give the rebuttal to bushes address.

The democrats should change their party name to demowimps----------

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. Or how 'bout the...

...MPOPs (Make Pretend Opposition Party).

[Gatchaman]

5. A total waste of time

they might as well have gotten Spongebob Squarepants to deliver the democratic response. More people would have watched it, at least.

[depakid]

6. More proof that the Dems have basically punted 2006 away

With this kind of drivel, they might as well pack their bags and go home.

[bigluckyfeet]

8. Who Made the Decision

to put this guy on TV?

[onenote]

7. Arianna Huffington: Political genius. Not.

Sorry, but I think I'll take a pass on following advice from Huffington. Its a fact that when she ran for governor in California, a state that leans solidly Democratic, she couldn't attract more than 2 percent of the voters. On the other hand, Tim Kaine pulled off a stunning victory in a state that leans red most of the time. So, if the goal is to win elections, which requires appealing to swing voters in states that tip red, but might go blue, I think I'll pay more attention to Tim Kaine than to Ariana Huffington. Chasing after losers is not the road to success.

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