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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
CC: I agree to a certain extent--"the vision thing" has been a problem for the Democrats for a while. I do think there's a danger in over-generalizing though. The Democrats have been working hard to gain traction on some of these issues, and the complete lack of a charismatic person to synthesize their message from the top down has been their Achilles heel. Not to mention that it's taken a while for them to even agree that the country's current direction isn't very good. But to say that they're wishy washy on all the issues isn't quite accurate. Iraq is a difficult issue because typically the democratic position is something like "we wouldn't have gone in; now we need benchmarks for success and a scaled withdrawal"--which is far too complicated for the American public, who see this issue in terms of "stay the course" or "cut and run." As usual, it's not that simple.
The way that politics works down here is generally that Democrats try to be too detailed in their policy proposals, while Republicans work to simplify issues down to digestible soundbites. The first might make for better policy (at least I suspect it does) but the latter definitely makes for better politics. The proof of that is in the pudding, so to speak.
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Oh so the Dem's appeal to smart votes and the Republicans work to their dumber base. Is that about it? Funny but from afar although yes I have lived in the States and in one of the funniest political states of them all(Louisiana) it looks like the Dem's position on the IRAQ war was hell yeah I vote go get them. Yes I vote give the boys more money to conduct the war. Whoops too many body bags and we can use the no WMD thing against the Rep's. OK we are out of here and we would have never gone in in the first place if we had been given proper intelligence. Now we would love to cut and run but that would get a whole lot of people killed(as Bush and the boys point out). So let's go with we'll run the war better and get the boys home quicker.
So basically a complete turn around on the main issue as they can't argue the economy which is always what many people base their vote on.
Now if Bush and the boys aren't looking for a way out of the war and a scaled withdraw then the they are being controlled by the oil company and defense contractor conspiracy boys have got it right.
I would think if anything that from afar the Reps look like they actually believe something whether they actually do or not and state it in plain terms where it's kinda hard to tell what the Dem's believe and not because it's hard to understand but because it seems fabricated during the time leading up to an election.