We'd better not make that mistake in '08. In '06, we (especially here on FR) desperately tried to convince ourselves that the polls couldn't be right, there was no way the electorate would be so stupid as to turn to the 'Rats. Well, they were, and they did. We didn't want to face the bad news that we were going to lose, and so blissfully went on our way, whistling past the graveyard, ignoring reality, not accepting what would have been obvious to anyone with the eyes to see and ears to hear.
We can't afford to make that mistake in '08 with Hillary!, she's too dangerous. We've got to pay attention to every bit of credible information we can gather, and act accordingly. I don't want to see us lose in another landslide simply because we lied to ourselves about how the polls couldn't possibly be right.
There's something else. I watched Fred's entire Iowa speech. Right on, right on. But you know what? It just wasn't INSPIRING. He said all the right things, but not a single sound bite that would catch the average joe's ear and have them say, "Hey, I like that guy." Rudy, for all his faults, was the ONLY Republican to really take it to Moveon for the ad. Now, Fred had a great come-back on the Rush dust-up.
What I'm saying is there is no consistency among ANY of these guys. EVERY SINGLE DAY they ought to be hammering Clinton and the "moveon" Dems, BY NAME.
Given the divisions on our side---and it's clear some will sit on their hands in BOTH the Rudy and Fred camps, regardless of who is elected (just read the wide-awakes web site)---our only shot is to drive Hillary's negatives up.
If their message is vote for a person with an R by their name because they might not be as bad as the person with a D by their name.
Nothing positive being said and proved will result in a defeat of the democrat lite politics.