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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (516987)	12/30/2003 2:03:02 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Twilight of the Neocons? billmon.org

To: American Spirit who wrote (516987)	12/30/2003 3:39:45 AM
From: Rick McDougall	Respond to of 769670

bushlies.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (516987)	12/30/2003 6:04:29 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You mean the one that has SWAMPED Hillary's since the DNC stopped buying 100's of 000's of copies for God knows what reason? jdn

To: American Spirit who wrote (516987)	12/30/2003 7:55:38 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Self-destruction: Democrats seem intent on helping Republicans win By BETSY HART, Scripps Howard News Service December 30, 2003 We are days away from 2004, and it's a very important year for America. It's the year we'll find out if our country still has a vibrant, two-party system. Or, should we cancel future elections, and just let the Republicans rule? A big "no thanks" on that one from me. But that's where we could be headed if the Democrats don't get their act together -- fast. Here's what Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean had to say in a major foreign policy speech the day after Saddam Hussein's capture was reported: He said it offered America an opportunity to "move ahead," but "the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." Um, OK, I'm assuming he really believes that. How he believes it is beyond me, but I'm assuming he really believes it. But what might be more telling is that on the day it was reported we had Saddam, Dean actually made comments that were complimentary of the administration and called Saddam's capture a great day for America. Obviously, when he had time to ponder the matter, he decided to go in a different direction. Left. But Dean said something else even more revealing, as the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer reported in a column entitled "The Delusional Dean": Dean told interviewer Diane Rehm that he found something he heard to be to be a most "interesting" idea: that the Saudi government tipped off President Bush to the fact that the Sept. 11 attacks were coming. What? Later, when pressed, Dean said he "didn't believe" it of course. No, but he was awfully happy to put that outrageous rumor out there. The latest polls show Dean ahead in the Iowa and New Hampshire Democratic primaries, only a month or so away. What is going on? There was a time when partisan Democrats really thought America was great -- that a strong America was a force for good in the world. They wanted big social programs and all that, but one still got the impression they were on our team. Perhaps that's why 50 years ago, almost half of the electorate identified themselves as Democrats. But by 2002, it was only 34 percent. Most amazingly, Democratic pollster Mark Penn recently revealed, today only 22 percent of white men identify themselves as Democrats. As David Brooks reported in the Weekly Standard in an article aptly entitled, "Democrats Go off the Cliff," Democratic Senator Robert Byrd recently said that because of President Bush, "This republic is at its greatest danger in its history," and John Kerry said that Bush "deliberately misled" America in order to start the Iraq war. "Greatest danger" to the Republic? What? Bush bold-faced lying to Americans in order to start a war half way around the world? Crazy. Yes, there's Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democratic senator and presidential contender who condemned Howard Dean's response to the Saddam capture. He seems to be the one sane Democrat running for president, sort of in the mode of JFK: pro-American, strong on national defense, fairly liberal on domestic policy, without being for big tax increases. (JFK actually cut taxes.) But, Lieberman is floundering in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes. Apparently he's too, well, reasonable. Of course, there is a Democratic "stop-Dean" coalition. But few Democrats seem to be listening. And that's the problem. It's the talk of Republicans -- what in the world is happening to the Democrats? Is their hatred for Bush eating them alive or just making them irrelevant? courierpress.com