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To: MrLucky who wrote (12226)	2/15/2006 10:55:19 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

FWIW, I was thinking today how the Democrats are going into crucial 2006 midterm elections with a barely coherent message, and certainly no clear, confident leadership to deliver it. We know that a Reid-Pelosi leadership team is not going to lead the barnstorming national tours to buck up the local candidates. Hillary is a mixed blessing in many constituencies. I'm sure Bill will hit the hustings for them but he's old news. Gore, useless outside the bluest states, ditto Edwards for the most part. We won't even go into Howard Dean's remarkable ability to generate negative media coverage whenever he opens his mouth. I keep waiting to see some focused program gel on their side of the aisle and it's as clear as mud. Does that help your cause? ;<)

To: MrLucky who wrote (12226)	2/16/2006 8:36:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541648

By golly, I think we have a winner! You know, I don't see how, at this point in time, any even semi-balanced thread could avoid leaning against Bush. I've been watching the enthusiasm for him wane over time in most quarters. I couldn't bring myself to vote for either him or Gore but I was willing to give the winner a chance. By the time Bush had imposed the steel tariffs, I was off the fence and it just kept getting worse from there. It took a while before I had much company, though. Right now he still has the allegiance of the social conservatives and the neocons, to list two ingredients from Nadine's stew, plus those who are so partisan they would go to the mat for any Republican, regardless, but the rest of the right and the Republicans are at best lukewarm. I appreciate your aversion to the mindless Bush-haters, but it's not just the Bush-haters who lean away. Huge chunks of the middle and right are disenchanted, too. There are few places where you'd find a lot of cheering for Bush. So IMO you shouldn't be surprised to not find it here.