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To: JohnM who wrote (110374)	8/7/2003 11:18:48 AM
From: stockman_scott	of 281500

THE SILVER BULLET ______________________ By David Podvin “My Republican opponent voted to cut medical benefits for our war heroes in order to give a tax cut to himself.” This should be the mantra of Democratic candidates in 2004. It should be vigilantly repeated until Republicans howl in protest. It should be endlessly repeated until conservatives wail about the class warfare of it all. It should be relentlessly repeated until every right wing pundit across America is foaming at the mouth…even more than usual. And then it should be repeated again. What George W. Bush and company did was unpatriotic – they sent young Americans off to fight for this country while stabbing them in the backs. Those soldiers who do not return in body bags will come home to a dangerous future of severely reduced medical care, courtesy of the flag waving phonies of the Grand Old Party. The Republicans must be made to pay for this act of treachery. They must be exposed as pseudo-patriotic frauds. They must be publicly humiliated and politically destroyed. It is the only moral thing to do. The most recent all-out liberal assault on the decadence of conservatives happened during the 1964 campaign. A team of Lyndon Johnson’s operatives – led by Bill Moyers – accurately portrayed America’s right wingers as racist warmongers. On Election Day, the Republicans were sniveling about “vicious tactics”, while the Democrats were celebrating a landslide victory. Following LBJ’s departure, Democratic leaders unwisely discarded the winning confrontational strategy in favor of being conciliatory. Over the last thirty-five years, liberals have responded to conservative gutter sniping by seeking to “elevate the level of the national debate”. Instead of telling the truth about Republicans, Democrats have chosen to “take the high road”. It has usually been the road to oblivion. If the Democratic Party is willing to get tough, the military medical benefits issue can be used to put the Republicans on the defensive and keep them backpedaling all the way through the 2004 election. Here is the chance for Democrats to align with America’s soldiers against the malicious reactionaries who exploit the issue of patriotism to do some very unpatriotic things. Continues......... makethemaccountable.com

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