SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: carranza2 who wrote (99113)5/25/2003 11:53:58 AM
From: JohnM   of 281500
 
There is much to disagree with in your post, c2, but the biggest disagreement is your assumption about where the Reps are.

In my view, there are two large factors at play when one tries to think about the Reps right now. The first is that Bush is governing from the hard right, see the judicial nominations as simply one illustration of a host of others; and the second is the national security issue.

The present strategy is to use the second to conceal the first.

The alternate Dem strategy is to increase their credibility on the second, the better to heighten general voter awareness of the first.

But the absence of a credible national leader on the Dem side hampers this strategy until the primaries reduce the numbers.

As for your argument that the middle group of voters were lost because of Clinton and new perceptions of their weakness on national security issues, it's a bit of an overgeneralization. My recollection is that Al Gore won more votes in the 00 election than brother Bush even though Gore ran one of the weakest campaigns I've ever seen. So I don't think Clinton is/was the problem.

I do agree, however, that 9-11 and the way the Bush folk have framed it have increased the prominence of national security issues.

Might I suggest that if you wish to continue this discussion, you bring it over the LindyBill's new thread. FL is, rightly, not comfortable with these conversations on this thread.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News