One final item I'd like to put on the table, before the predictable chorus of "the Dems are no better than the Bushites" begins. Here's a passage from something I received earlier today via email. It's from an essay by Brent Budowsky entitled "The American Crisis: If Thomas Paine Were With Us, Part 3." In it, he writes:
And he concludes: "Never has a case in a mid-term election more clear, more compelling, and more urgent to communicate."
So what would you tell the Dems to do if you had a voice in their strategy session?
The argument for the Democrats is not that they are brilliantly organized, politically courageous, or profoundly principled. They are not. The argument for the Democrats is that on national security, on the issues that define The American Crisis, they are fundamentally professional, fundamentally decent, and fundamentally in tune with the successful security strategies that have served America well since the Second World War and have united the free world for sixty years.
The argument for the Democrats is that America is a Republic that functions best with two political parties and three branches of government sharing power. The Nation inevitably endures grave crisis, as we have learned through much unnecessary danger and blood, when the goodwill of the Republic, and the checks and balances of democracy, are destroyed by the single minded partisans and factions that the Federalist Papers warned all future generations so sternly against.
And he concludes: "Never has a case in a mid-term election more clear, more compelling, and more urgent to communicate."
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