Democrats’ change
The Democrat candidates try their level best to draw distinctions between themselves and any Republican candidate, according to the Wall Street Journal;
The candidates have made broad attacks on corporate wealth and tax cuts they say tilt toward the rich, along with more specific attacks against health insurers and oil companies, among other industries. On Friday, Mrs. Clinton began airing a TV spot in Wisconsin in which she says, “The oil companies, the drug companies, have had seven years of a president who stands up for them…. It’s time we had a president who stands up for all of you.”
Both candidates increasingly sound like former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as they pursue his endorsement and the voters — particularly union members — who were drawn to the populist candidate before he dropped out last month. Illinois Sen. Obama got a boost toward that goal Friday with the backing of the Service Employees International Union, one of the most politically powerful labor organizations.
Typical Democrat strategy, assume the mantle of the defeated. Since John Edwards’ candidacy failed, both Clinton and Obama want to act like him. That’s a real winning strategy. So the DNC, unable to formulate a winning strategy for their prospective candidates make sophomoric attacks against John McCain instead;
Even as he acknowledged that our economy is headed towards a recession, McCain offered no answers about how to rebuild the economy, address concerns hard working Americans face or the mortgage crisis. Instead, McCain promised to make the President’s tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, pledged not to raise any new taxes and said he’d pay for it all with pork barrel spending reform. McCain’s approach just won’t work. As the Senate Budget Office recently reported, extending the Bush tax cuts and continuing the war is a recipe for a $6 trillion dollar deficit, something McCain can’t possibly pay for by reducing $35 billion in earmarks and pork spending.
McCain also ducked the fact that he was more worried about alienating the right wing of his party than supporting the economic stimulus package when he failed to show up for critical votes on the measure.
McCain also continued his pattern of marching in lockstep with President Bush on Iraq, a rallying point for the right wing of his party but not the rest of America. Five years ago this weekend, Vice President Cheney said Americans would be greeted as liberators in Iraq, a talking point McCain dutifully repeated. Now, when asked about establishing permanent bases in Iraq, McCain echoed the President’s talking points by pointing out that there are other status of forces agreements that “have never been approved by Congress.” From parroting the misleading case for war to President Bush’s rosy rhetoric and stay the course strategy, McCain has marched in lockstep with President Bush every step of the way and now wants to keep our troops there for 100 years.
“John McCain showed today that he is about as far from a maverick as they come,” said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. “How can the American people trust John McCain when time and time again he’s shown that he will compromise his principles to win the election and has no new ideas to address the challenges we face? Whether it’s promoting more fiscal irresponsibility or a 100 year war in Iraq, McCain offers nothing more than a third Bush term.”
So basically, the Democrat strategy is to sell us the same old tired and failed Democrat social programs, wrapped in the new-style sexual/racial politics and to rerun the 2004 campaign against President Bush, with a smidgen of the 1992/1996 campaigns thrown in for good measure. So that’s change, huh?
Category: Politics
Change just for change’s sake can be hazardous to everyone’s health. Imagine someone takes heart medication, for an example. So they want to change? They stop taking their medication and take insulin. HUH?
My point exactly. Where’s the uncontaminated beef? 😉