Plan. Plan! Plan? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCLXVIII

The Blog from the Core ^ | September 7, 2004 | E. L. Core

[ELCore]

.... Dear Kedwards:

In the past two years, this nation has freed another nation from three decades of murderous torture at the hands of a maniacal dictator. That nation is well on the way to a more democratic way of life, and the dictator is going into the dock. Somehow, you think that the Bush administration took our country into that war without a plan: the on-going results belie your judgement.

Now comes news that your political opponent has gained considerably in the polls, and that your own staff has consequently been... adjusted. :-)

Are these political developments (1) evidence of your own lack of a plan and/or (2) further evidence that no war plan whatever — and politics is war by another name — no war plan ever survives first contact with the enemy?

Here's what I mean. Your party has been able to presume for six months that you would be its nominee for the presidency. And your party has been able to presume for much longer that George W. Bush would be your opponent. Your own political history is what it is, and so is your opponent's. You have had, therefore, plenty of time to plan and implement a campaign for the presidency. Why is it going so poorly?

Does a continually changing situation on the ground have anything to do with it? The economy has perked up; the Swiftees came at you; the Republicans don't just sit back and take what you want to dish out; and, the people react differently, here and there, now and then, than you might have expected.

Is not, then, your own political campaign a nearly perfect analogy, in the world of politics, to the War Against Saddam Hussein? And, is not your own campaign doing, so far, demonstrably worse than the campaign to free the Iraqis?

Specifically, what does this comparison say about you and your political strategy? And about the current administration and its foreign policy?

Thank you for your kind attention to these considerations.

The Blog from the Core....

[Truth is a Weapon]

Excellent!

[ELCore]

Thanks!