Like Ron Walters Said: Democrats are Political Punks

The Democrats appear to be knock-kneed, lily-livered punks when it comes to achieving anything like the aggressiveness with which the Republican pursued Clinton. You wouldn't know there was an election going and this issue could decide it. Karl Rove knows and he is putting up one hell of a fight for Bush while Democrats are tap-dancing. If Bush gets overcomes this, John Kerry, his handlers, and Democratic National Committee leaders should be placed in a prison camp. Don’t even bother to send me the pictures.[more]

• Eight real Questions for Condoleezza Rice [more]

• GET A PLAN. Many Americans think they know what the Republicans and Democrats stand for. The trouble is that they learned it from the Republicans. This is because Democrats and progressives have been miserably incapable of stating clearly what they are about. This is not - as some have suggested - a matter of better rhetoric or proper branding; it is a matter of having something you believe in and explaining it well to others. The Vichy Democrats in control of the party aren't interested in this because it destroys their flexibility to appear to be one thing to their contributors and another thing to their constituents. But clever as this may appear, it has left the left to be defined by the right as being interested primarily in gay marriages and abortions. In the end, to many it appears the GOP stands for all the good things - patriotism, values, family, the economy, security et al - while the Democrats stand for nothing. Nominating Kerry, of course, merely played into the stereotype. [more]