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Originally Posted by Redux
No reason for the Dems to blow their wad too soon, only to have the right wing blogs nitpick it to death for the next nine months.
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What wad? As one Democratic insider noted, the Democrats had a winning formula pioneered and executed by Clinton. They even threw that away. A responsible Democratic party would have seen right through reasons for the "Mission Accomplished" war. And yet their own leadership (ie Tom Daschle) literally did not have either balls or a grasp of history to understand how wrong that war was (and is).
Democratic actions in the Alito hearings were just as devoid of strategic planning. Too often, their responses have been reactionary rather than planned and studied. Furthermore, Democrats have failed to create outright liars (spin doctors) such as Rush Limbaugh to preach to the naive.
Remember, why do politician lie? Because we want them to. We lie to ourselves and call their lies as being politically correct. We don't discuss with the blunt 'only facts matter' attitude as this poster routinely does. Therefore we have the liars we want. It’s just that the Democrat liars don't have an agenda upon which to focus their lies.
Posted those years ago, I noted that George Jr was so vulnerable that the election would have to be lost by Democrats rather than won by Republicans. Democratic support for Kerry was that poor because the party (and Kerry campaign) could not even form a message. That is total political incompetence that plagues much of the Democratic Party.
Why do Republican extremist (and Rush Limbaugh liars) so routinely attack Hillary? She is one of the few competent leaders in that party. Surprisingly, Hilary has a better focused agenda than top Democratic leaders.
So again, I ask, "What Wad?" What is this political consensus that the Democratic Party could rally behind? They don't have one which is why they had leaders such as Tom Daschle who demonstrated no backbone when George Jr lied about aluminum tubes, Saddam, a so incompetently executed attack on Tora Bora, and George Jr's 'all but protecting bin Laden' agenda.