Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Mark Schmitt is a bit behind. Serious conservatives have been asking themselves questions since some point in 2002, certainly in 2003, and definitely in 2004. Mark Schmitt is apparently not in touch with the Right except as a political theory that he can study from a distance.

Maybe you should follow the link before you ascribe to him ignorance about what "serious conservatives" have been saying.

Its the war, stupid (not you, just paraphrasing what this boils down to). The post 9/11 security situation is the absolute, overriding political concern in this nation. And we still have not heard a serious word about it from Kerry except his pandering to the Dean crowd. Which I do not necessarily object to except that he won't embrace Dean's profile-lowering entirely, and rather seems to prefer an embrace the pre 9/11 reactionary policies. If he wants to have a chance to pull this off, he needs to call in the media in the next week and give a speech using the words "preemption" and "prevention" liberally and in a security context of what he is willing to do (no pun intended).

While you are ignorant of Kerry's views on national security, Schmitt would probably agree with you about the centrality of the issue in this election.