Oh, the dems are in deep trouble folks. They've boxed themselves into the unenviable task of running away from the very platform they're running on.
As evidence, consider the howls of outrage over the first ad from the RNC.
"It's wrong. It's erroneous, and I think that they ought to pull the ad," Daschle told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday.
"We all want to defeat terrorism," the South Dakota senator said. But "to chastise and to question the patriotism of those who are in opposition to some of the president's plans I think is wrong."
And
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called it an "attempt to stifle dissent." On ABC's "This Week," Kennedy said "dissent is a basic part of what our whole society is about."
Oddly, the AP article does not give a link to or quote from the ad itself, even though it's readily available. I'm sure it was just an oversight; it's not like they didn't want anyone to check for themselves, right?
Well, I'm always happy to do my part, and if you follow the link, you'll see that both Tom Daschle and Ted Kennedy have firmly wedged their heads up their respective (let's hope) keisters. Here are the two statements in the ad that have aroused the ire of the donks:
- Some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists.
- Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others.
What dissent has been stifled? Whose patriotism has been questioned? The ad simply points out the established dem line of attack on the president. Despite the evidence of connections between Iraq and terrorism in general, and the growing evidence of connections with al Qaeda in particular, dems still hold to the position that Iraq was not a legitimate target in the war on terror. Dems also recite the mantra that the US must allow the UN to take the lead in the war on terror. And since that war is demonstrably vital to our national security, both of the statements in the ad are true.
But the majority of people in this country support both the war on terror and the war in Iraq, and that's the crux of the dem's dilemma right there, folks. If they actually run on what they're running on, they lose. So they attack any attempt to connect them with their platform, and they keep that platform comfortably vague. They're all for fighting terrorism, as long as we don't actually, you know, fight terrorists.
Posted by Rich at November 24, 2003 1:31 PM | TrackBack