This party is completely emasculated. The very fact that Pelosi and democrats refuse to commit to a clear, definitive position on Iraq is proof-positive that this party sees this mission as nothing more than a pesky political issue. To not take a stand on Iraq, the most pressing and urgent of all this country's priorities right now, this party is willingly exposing itself before the entire country as an unreliable, unprincipled alternative in times of war. How contemptuous and condescending must this party be to think that the average person can't identify this kind of evasion as pure cowardice?
No one doubts that the overwhelming majority of that party wants a complete withdrawal, yet their own party refuses to rescind their support for this war, despite knowing full well that an unambiguous anti-war position would fire up their base like nothing else.
This party has no instinct. It's constituency is too lofty and undisciplined. A conflicted mess. The party can't trust its own base because the base is soaked head to toe in mindless relativism. The problems with this party are so fundemental and obvious that they'll never figure it out.
It also helps that the Dem party base is composed of a bunch of shrieking nutjobs.
Every time Howard Dean speaks, another 10,000 people decide to vote Republican.
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