DEMOCRATS AND NATIONAL SECURITY….Digby is worried about the 2004 election:
I hope that the Democrats face up to the reality that national security is going to be the foremost issue in the coming Presidential campaign and find a way to deal with the fact that we are considered to be complete losers on the issue. This is a HUGE problem and it’s not going to magically disappear no matter how badly they manage to fuck up the economy. They are going to keep asserting that the economy is in the ditch because of the “war” on evil and there is nothing to be done but to keep cutting taxes and invading countries that might threaten us someday. They are committed to this and they aren’t going to budge.
And we are going to lose if we don’t find a way to answer the charge that Democrats are pussies.
For reasons both fair and unfair, he’s right. I don’t know if Wesley Clark is the answer, but the problem is real. Like Digby, I hope the Democratic candidates face it squarely.
