[ex-snook]

""What's important is not who [the Democrats] are going to come up with," he said. "What is incumbent on us is to focus on what we ought to be about, what issues we want to talk about." "

And what not to focus on. Yep, voters will decide if their paychecks and airports are more threatened than 4 years ago. Suggest that the best issue would be that any Democrat would be far worse than him.

[ArneFufkin]

This idea that people vote on "paycheck" issues is nonsense. Most of the layoffs that have occured over the last 4 years have been in dot.com and new economy carrier and equipment companies, whose young engineering and marketing types aren't GOP voters anyway. Anyone who thinks George W. Bush is responsible for the "Economy" is too stupid to be a Republican. Our airports are exponentially safer now than they were four years ago, our borders are safer, our nuclear plants and utilities and dams are safer, our LEOs are communicating better than ever before, our CIA is performing brilliantly in Iraq and getting more folks on the ground each day, Homeland Security will professionalize our domestic LEOs. A dividend tax abolition would create jobs, a Capital Gains tax abolition would create jobs and an Estate Tax abolition will create jobs.

The Democrats have no alternative plan. None.

This "recession" is a God-send for conservatives, because it will force cash-strapped states to start laying off AFSCME, University employees, cut grants and consultant contracts, cut numbers of welfare recipients and grants to non-profits and University academics.

That's your Democrat constituency. Defunding these folks, moving Civil Servants into the private sector, cutting off the money funnel to Identity Groups and Academics will collapse the Democrat syndicate. If Big Shirley ain't getting walking around money from Reverend Leon any more, she ain't voting.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Suggest that the best issue would be that any Democrat would be far worse than [Bush].

But let's not forget that you claimed that Al Gore was your second choice for president, behind your first choice of Pat Buchanan.