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Originally posted by sgtclub
And you like to forget that the Democrats were also in favor of the war in Iraq, until Howard Dean started to pull away in the polls. Then it became OK to be against it, even if you were for it.
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This has been the Democrats' biggest problem this election - they can't decide what they want to be when they grow up. They're torn between representing the Demo wing of the Demo party, and corralling the many more moderates out there. For a bit, it looked like they would go moderate, but then Dean came on the scene, and skewed it horribly - they had to go left to counter what he was doing, and to regain who he was attracting. Now, with Dean out of the way, they want the moderates again, but they're stuck with all of the things they said and did in the anti-Dean fight.
Not that the Repubs wouldn't do the same - it's just that, when you campaign for an incumbent, you don't have all of that "all-over-the-map" primary stuff to contend with.
Kerry, being what he is, has done a less than perfect job of reassuring all concerned that he will be "their" president. His problem is, he can't be all of those things. His constituency is just way too spread out. He could have simply been vague - instead, he waffled. Wrong choice.
