TPM: Democrats susceptible to "weak-kneed-ism"

[PDittie]

This is dead-on. I can't stand it when the lily-livered come rushing in here to post their "We're Doomed" threads:

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I was off-line for about three hours this evening. And when I got back to my computer there were a couple hundred emails commenting from various perspectives and viewpoints about the OBL tape that ran this afternoon.

The opinions ranged the gamut, from panic to indifference, many with steadfastness and underlying optimism.

Overall, though, the letters again struck me with what is one of the Democrats' greatest weaknesses: their vulnerability to getting knocked off stride by the rush of events, their tendency to fret that all is lost, almost to indulge in it, when the car hits a simple bump in the road.

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The Bush campaign is trying to use the OBL tape to slap the Kerry campaign around, knock them off their stride, and argue that for Kerry now even to mention anything about the president's failure to bag bin Laden is the height of shamefullness.

The president's communications director even told reporters that the only acceptable thing would be for John Kerry to observe a twelve or more hour moratorium on attacks on the president, even though the president should be allowed to continue attacking John Kerry.

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003851

The Repukes NEVER second-guess themselves. They stay focused and on-message, and the really savvy ones, like Rove, exploit the doubt some of our more chicken-hearted members express.

Then all they have to do is get the media to pick up the meme.

That's why they win. Because NO ONE respects a pussy.

Seemingly all we have to do is not over-react, and they DON'T win.

How hard is that?

[comradebillyboy]

1. no one respects a pussy?

thats news to the congressional dems, except for nancy pelosi and a few others. according to bartcop they all wear pink tutus.

[PDittie]

2. ESPECIALLY not in the voting booth

Check this:

While the message was directed to Americans, the video aired Friday had something to encourage al-Qaida supporters around the world: the image of bin Laden — dressed in dignified, clean robes — looking and sounding fit, firmly in control and well informed on current events despite three years on the run from U.S. forces.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_tape&cid=540&ncid=716

Yeah, that's bound to help * ...