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To: stockman_scott who wrote (9553)	1/23/2006 6:01:15 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541299

The Gallup site asked the question "will this shift translate into votes?" I happened on this column by a Democrat after seeing that map and thought it gave an answer of sorts. In 2008 the election will, at least to a degree -- and that degree is unknowable at this time -- be about national security. People will never vote for a presidential candidate who is weak on national security. They won't. And the Dems are. As long as they have people like Nancy Pelosi in the leadership, and as long as the heft of the party is provided by the Washington groups and the Hollywood-Campus Axis-of-Defeat, they will stay weak on national security. It is simply not possible for Nancy Pelosi to take on the Republicans on their handling of the war, or of diplomacy, or of Iran, or of the NSA/DoD/Cheney attack on the Constitution. The Dems need to be doing that to prepare the ground for 2008. They should be laying down artillery fire now to soften up the terrain. It takes voters a year or two to clue in, to catch the zeitgeist as the pony-tailed assistant professors might say. As it stands, even if the Dems have the sense to nominate a centrist like Mark Warner or Evan Bayh or even Joe Biden, their candidate will be forced to make the case entirely on his (or her) own while simultaneously dragging the Axis-of-Defeat around like the Ancient Mariner and his dead albatross. The American people know the Bushies have screwed up national security, they know that Osama is still out there un-caught and un-killed, they know the Bushies have slipped the track on wiretapping, they know the Bushies are hiding behind the flag in an attempt to conceal their massive incompetence, but when the only other option is the cringe n' surrrender Democrats they will continue to vote for tough-but-stupid over smart-but-weak. As long as the world is a dangerous place, people will, if forced to choose, go with the schoolyard bully over the schoolyard pussy. And so long as the public voice of the Democratic Party is provided by the likes of Nancy Pelosi or a pandering Hillary Clinton, or a backroom knife fighter like Harry Reid, or Howard Dean, or God help us, the latest obnoxious nonsense from MoveOn, it's nothing but wimp. Let me put this in personal terms: I am a registered Democrat, I produce ads for Democratic Legislative candidates, look me up on OpenSecrets.org and you'll see that I give a decent chunk of money to the Democrats, I am pro-choice, I am pro-gay, I am for national health insurance, I'm as secular as a person can be without actually stealing the baby Jesus out of the nearest creche, and I won't vote to put a Pelosi-Dean-MoveOn-Michael Moore-Tim Robbins Democrat in the White House in 2008. If the Democrats can't get someone like me in 2008 they are dead-donkeys-walking. It is time for a Democrat presidential candidate to pull a Sister Souljah moment and smack the Pelosi wing of the party down hard. I'm looking at you, Mark Warner. If you won't do it, I'll look at the guy who will. mightymiddle.com