[metalboy]

The problem with Bush bashing is that it is a sign of desperation..

No, the problem with Bush bashing is 100% of the people who do it have yet to bash Al Qaida or Saddam. Like my tagline says..........

[2banana]

wouldn't it be great to see Bush, the Vietnam War deserter, in a debate against GENERAL Wesley Clark.

Since when is joining the National Guard equal to "desertion?" This person needs a military history lesson and a lesson of the units in Iraq and Afghanistan right now...

[sharpink]

I love the end of it. If we could just move left "the people" will be with us. Thats how you beat GWB.

[saminfl]

We live in a polarized nation, and for better or worse motivating the poles is the only way to win this election.

Does Poland have a voice in our elections?

[Dave Olson]

Democrats ... lose what is left of their integrity as well.

Impossible! They cannot lose what they never had.

[Roughneck]

>>>>wouldn't it be great to see Bush, the Vietnam War deserter...<<<

Bush was not a deserter-dems just bear false witness.

And what did klinton do?, why, he avoided the draft altogether by leaving the country.

But we're not supposed to talk about the "past" right?

Dems are IMO just useless bags of skin...

[RebelBanker]

The writer is an ignorant child. Safe in his warm little academic cocoon, he has no idea how the real world works and obviously has no clue what most "real" Americans believe.

[dead]

What a juvenile view of politics.

Silly little kid.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The "now what" moment is a likely result should a Democrat win the Presidency.

I always think back to when Clinton was first elected. HE WAS SURPRISED! And to me, that is stunning.

[CatoRenasci]

The thing that one can be most certain of is that young Mr. Douglas, who wrote this drivel, is the scion of the very moneyed interests he bashes: Pomona College is an exclusive, very expensive, elite liberal arts college, most of whose students' parents make incomes in excess of $200,000 per year.

Kid, yer just like your boomer parents who raged against the machine. But, at least we were cheerfully stoned, got laid a lot (pre-aids, post-pill) and eventually grew up to be responsible republicans. The lefty democrat politiicans to day are mostly not the kids who really played at being hippies, but the ones who were, like Clinton, the student government nerds, who went to law school while all the rest of us dropped out, went to real grad school or got jobs. Beware, kid, there's probably a republican life in store for you!

[randog]

If, instead, a candidate could convince disillusioned voters that he or she was genuinely dedicated to fixing the nation's decaying social institutions and promoting social justice, they could easily pick up the votes that went to Ralph Nader in 2000.

Still trying to win the last election, I see. And they like to call themselves "progressive".

What's interesting about this article (and the dem strategy generally) is that leftists are slowly figuring out that they have no popular appeal. They're desperately trying to make 2+2 equal 5 and getting frustrated when their "new math" doesn't pan out.

[SF Republican]

Bush, the Vietnam War deserter oh really?

[elbucko]

....and promoting social justice,...

Just what, exactly, does that mean to the deep thinker of this article. The term "social justice" is merely blue baiting and nothing more. The majority of these people cannot define simple "justice", let alone the specious term, social justice.

[Egon]

then the Democrats will not only lose the election, but lose what is left of their integrity as well.

Uh huh.

[BurtS188]

The saddest part of this whole article to me is that it isn't just one silly academic kid that feels this way. Spend any amount of time on the leftist news sites or DU for that matter and you'll soon discover they all have a distorted view of reality. The same things that they want to hold against President Bush were done WORSE with the last president. Reading this junk has gotten so monotonous I tend to just ignore it anymore. It used to fascinate me. You know, checking out diverse opinions and all that. But it has gotten so silly it's truly a waste of my time.

[Taliesan]

economic inequality

This young man hates "economic inequality". He will now give all his money away.

[LADY J]

"I loved the Web sites that made George W. Bush look like a monkey"

C'mon sonny - you're not really a college student. Your third grade mentality is showing.

[DustyMoment]

This kid's "facts" have so many holes in them it you could drive the entire pool of motorized vehicles that the Army has in Iraq side-by-side though it and still not come close to the sides. The only thing he got right in the whole rant is that the "beat Bush at any cost" tactic is a recipe for disaster and not a sound strategy for national presidential campaigns.

The rest of it was just Democrat talking points; a combination of lies, fabrications and wishful thinking.

[FierceDraka]

[Paulus Invictus]

What little integrity the RATS have lost or will lose in 04 is not the issue: The real issue is whether or not they ever had any real integrity and honesty. This student author is a brainwashed leftie with not a clue as to what President Bush has done and will do to save the Republic from the socialist RATS.