I have a friend on IRC. We debate politics quite a lot, and I've come to call him Polly, the Faux News Parrot because in any debate, he pretty much just recites what he's been told on Faux News.
He's been throwing back at me that the Democrats (and especially Dean) aren't putting up serious issues, but are merely projecting hate onto W. Alleged intellectual William Buckly in a recent article on Yahoo http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=128&ncid=742&e=8&u=/uclicktext/20031
021/cm_ucwb/easingoffoniowa said pretty much the same thing:
"They have been listening to Dean and Gephardt denouncing George W. Bush in terms so categorical as to arouse an understandable indignation in those who voted for Bush. If he is the same monstrous creature depicted by Dean and Gephardt and Kerry and Edwards, maybe he should be not only defeated, but exiled. And those who voted for him? Placed on probation for a few years, before being set loose to vote again?"
It's pretty clear the Republicans aren't trying to come up with an issue by issue defence against all the charges of incompetence, favoratism, corruption, dishonesty and so on that the Bush administration is guilty of, but are trying to spin the line that every charge is merely an expression of pathological hatred by Democrats.
I think we need to take this seriously, and we need to end it now.
The best way to do this, I think, is to take the best charge on economic mishandling, on lying about the war in Iraq and on the general secrecy of this administration, back it up with solid evidence come up with a short paragraph and recite it over and over again.
So, I'd like to read your short paragraphs :)