1. We haven't found WMD in Iraq.
2. We haven't captured Saddam.
3. The economy is in a recession.
4. But it's a jobless recovery.
5. But we haven't found Osama.
Four down, one to go.
ha, its good to be right isn't it.
You've got it exactly right. This is the primary problem with a political campaign in our system that is based on being against, rather than for, something.
Kerry doesn't stand for anything. Never has. Won't today, and certainly won't by November. He's the proverbial "empty suit".
Had the Democratic Party not been at this point more of a political "coalition" rather than a true political party, they would have a very tight campaign right now, Kerry most assuredly would not be the Candidate, and they would have a huge lead at this point in the race, despite a good economy, and the sucesses in the war on terror.
But the very weaknesses a true political party could take advantage of, such as the unbelievable Administration stance on Border Security are not available to the Democrats. This is because if the "coalition" that makes up the Democratic Party suffers just one (1) true defection within its ranks, they get blown out by thirty points or more.
The very path the Democratic Party has been forced to take to keep known sub groups "in the fold" from hispanics to African Americans, to gays, to anti gun nuts, to the big government types, is its primary weakness. It ensures the Democratic Party will never take a hard stand on any issue of real importance to the clear Majority in America.
My biggest worry isn't so much the Democratic Party, its the GOP Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight, that always seems to mistake massive rejection of Liberalism in each election as an affirmation of ALL GOP positions. Thats just not the case, but watch and see, they will run amok after November, just as they did in 1995, and again in 1998 and to a lesser extent 1999.