[Recovering_Democrat]

There is a decided difference, I think, between "triangulation" and "taking issues off the table". Clinton engaged primarily in the former, our current Commander In Chief does the latter.

I think the difference lies in where one's policy takes shape. Triangulation, I think, tries to find a workable tandem between two separate points of view. President Bush is more likely to find a conservative solution that'll pass--as conservative as possible, sometimes...as in the flawed Education bill or the Campaign Finance Reform bill.

I think both have MAJOR problems, some practical other Constitutional--but the fact remains, the President did have some victory here, and took away from the liberals a campaign issue.

[RAT Patrol]

What value is there in taking away campaign issues by embracing them as your own? I have never understood that. In the end, did you win or did they? People come and go; it's the ideals they leave behind we need to concern ourselves with.