So I was just reading an AP article that quoted Newt Gingrich as saying, "If we go into the election year as the explainers and managers of failure, we're going to get hammered."
I couldn't agree more, and that's exactly what the Democratic Party leadership has to get their collective minds around right now. 'Where are the weapons of mass destruction?' Failure. 'Why did we send all those troops to Iraq so woefully under-equipped, as was the case with the "armored up" humvees, and having enough body armor so that soldiers themselves didn't have to buy their own?' Failure. 'Why weren't enough troops sent to do the job and secure the Iraqi borders?' Failure. 'Why, despite the deaths of over 1,900 Americans, and untold numbers of Iraqis, do we now have to "lower our expectations" of what is to become of Iraq because the Bush Administration's ideas of bringing an American style democracy to the Middle East were "unrealistic?" Failure. The list, as we all know, goes on and on, right up to the present with the Bush administration's pants down response to hurricane Katrina. Failure.
I have thought in the past that the Democrats didn't win the last presidential elections because John Kerry didn't want it bad enough to be mean enough. I say no more. The Democrats need to get mean.
I couldn't agree more, and that's exactly what the Democratic Party leadership has to get their collective minds around right now. 'Where are the weapons of mass destruction?' Failure. 'Why did we send all those troops to Iraq so woefully under-equipped, as was the case with the "armored up" humvees, and having enough body armor so that soldiers themselves didn't have to buy their own?' Failure. 'Why weren't enough troops sent to do the job and secure the Iraqi borders?' Failure. 'Why, despite the deaths of over 1,900 Americans, and untold numbers of Iraqis, do we now have to "lower our expectations" of what is to become of Iraq because the Bush Administration's ideas of bringing an American style democracy to the Middle East were "unrealistic?" Failure. The list, as we all know, goes on and on, right up to the present with the Bush administration's pants down response to hurricane Katrina. Failure.
I have thought in the past that the Democrats didn't win the last presidential elections because John Kerry didn't want it bad enough to be mean enough. I say no more. The Democrats need to get mean.
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