The problem with the Democrats' current strategy is that it is a conscious decision to slow the power swing to Conservatism at the expense of the entire Democratic Party.
Essentially, the liberal Democrats are saying: "Slow the march to conservatism even if it kills our Party."
So they are engaging in a scorched-earth policy the likes of which haven't been seen since Molotov was on the defensive from Manstein.
Seriously. The Democrats' current anti-Iraq mantra is giving ammunition to our political and military enemies around the world, and this anti-Iraq-war mantra is in direct contradiction to what the Democrats themselves said about Hussien and Iraq as little as 5 years ago.
But to the radical extremists who populate the Democratic Party cocktail-circuit elites, it matters less that they are aiding our foreign enemies than that they are sowing seeds of doubt against President Bush.
This has become such an overt problem that the more patriotic Democrats (e.g. Zell Miller, Ed Koch) are endorsing Republicans and rejecting the current anti-American foreign policy spin that is eminating from their urban power-elites.
In the end, America is going to become more Conservative (9/11, plus Baby Boomers are now just beginning to become first-time grandparents, the **most** conservative age in demographics). What the Democratic Party elite can do is to delay this inevitability by completely sacrificing their entire Party now.
So even though inner-city Blacks want private school choice vouchers, the Democrats are against them because those vouchers would speed the American swing to Conservatism by diluting the power of the radical teachers' unions, for instance. Ditto for gun control (where Dems are pitted against their rural constituents), abortion (where Dems are pitted against their own Catholic constituents), gay rights (where Dems are pitted against their Hispanic and Black constituents), and again on drilling in the ANWR (where Dems are fighting their own unions who want those new jobs).
Worse, the Dems are being anti-American in their fight against what we are doing in rebuilding Iraq. In the short term, this will slow the swing of Conservatism to power (though in all practical matters, we're already there), but it will come at a great cost to them, as their Party will be forever fouled by their current obstructionism once Iraq becomes a success story and a model for all future liberators to follow in the future.