The Democrats have decided that they can’t convince the American voters that Democrats are committed to protecting us. They ran what they perceived to be a war hero as their Presidential candidate in 2004, not realizing that he came with loads of baggage that real war heros would recognize as snotty, elitist Hollywood\u00c2\u00a0faux-heroism.<\/p>\n
Democrats realize that they can’t win the 2008 presidential election within the confines of the current state of affairs in the world – that being the global war against terrorism – without a candidate that can prove they are committed at any cost to defend Americans. They can’t find a candidate like that while their base voters are a bunch of Left-wing nutballs convinced that any war Republicans fight is illegitimate and some sort of conspiracy.<\/p>\n
So what’s the Democrat strategy to overcome such an obstacle? Deny that there’s a war against terror. John Edwards<\/a> is just the latest to tell us to ignore the man with the bomber’s vest behind the curtain. Last month Dick Durbin claimed<\/a> that he knew the American people were being misled to war by the White House – there was no threat, but anyone who has been half-awake for the last six years knows Durbin would have leaked any damaging information to the press in heartbeat if he thought he could hurt the administration.<\/p>\n Dennis Kucinich, last month declared that the war was lost the minute the administration fabricated a cause to go to war<\/a>. So there was no reason to go to war, because the Global War on Terror doesn’t really exist, except in the minds of some nebulous neo-con organization somewhere.<\/p>\n So that’s the strategy – deny there’s a war so they don’t have to prove that they can defend us. Mainly because Americans will never trust the Left with our National Security. Rational people might try to formulate a coherent policy to answer America’s problems. But, then, we’re not talking about rational people here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"