Re: When Will the Democrats Wake Up?

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:50:31 GMT, Mitchell Holman
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>
>Dallas Morning News
>11/11/03
>
>
>'When will the Democrats wake up?' 
>
>The Bush-bashing by the Democrats is heating up as we 
>draw closer to the 2004 elections. Yet, in spite of 
>this, two more Republican governors – one in Kentucky, 
>and another in Mississippi ­– were elected last week. 
>
>This proves that Democrats just don't really understand 
>what's important to the average American who remembers 
>how bad things were four years ago. 
>
>Sure, the Bush administration is creating a debt (even 
>larger than Ronald Reagan's) that will take generations 
>of Americans to pay off. And it's true that things appear 
>to be getting worse – not better – in Iraq and are beginning 
>to have a somewhat Vietnamesque appearance with American 
>soldiers dying at an alarming rate. Oh, and yeah. No weapons 
>of mass destruction found yet. 
>
>And it is true that warlords control all of Afghanistan 
>except for Kabul and some major highways. And it's also 
>true that NATO and the United Nations are now less effective 
>due to our mostly unilateral military intervention into Iraq, 
>which lessens stability worldwide. And, OK, the much-touted 
>Bush plan for $15 billion in AIDS assistance for Africa in 
>the end will really only amount to a fraction of that being 
>delivered. And, yes, it's a fact that the Bush administration 
>wants to starve Amtrak out of existence (though it carried a 
>record number of Americans this year), while $87 billion is 
>just the tip of what's needed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 
>future. 
>
>And, of course, I concede that the Bush administration did 
>manage to convert all the worldwide good will following Sept. 
>11 into a general distrust, if not outright hatred of the 
>United States throughout the globe. Yes, all these things are 
>unfortunate. 
>
>But, as Democrats seem to forget, all of these things remain 
>inconsequential in comparison to President Clinton's sexual 
>relations with Monica (even though it was two consenting adults). 
>When will the Democrats wake up? 
>
>Mark W. Meyer, Haltom City, Texas 
>

The difference is the repugs are fighters and the dems are cowards.
The GOP took the mickey mouse clinton scandal and made a big deal out
of it.  OTOH, the dems have loads of huge Bush scandals to attack with
and don't do anything.