I CALL BULLSHIT ON "DEFUNDING DEFEATS DEMS."
Conventional wisdom is all it is; the current spin on events, and the last desperate hope of the lazy and fearful Beltway Bozos?
No one has ANY proof that the Dems will lose because they defund the war.
The conventional wisdom was that we couldn't take the House and Senate. I have a memory, I remember that, but I worked and spent and we carried the day, because we had passion and believed the fight worth the pain.
UPDATE: It's depressing to see so many who don't understand how Congress works, or who think, on no evidence, that we will lose ANY seats by defunding.
But now the new DLC clones are telling us that we can't carry the public with us because (whine, whine) they will think, supposedly in response to Rovian mindf**ks, that the public will believe we don't support the troops.
I say it ain't true, that it ignores the very real possibility that the Dems will lose THEIR OWN BASE and THAT is what will lose both the public AND the Democratic passionate base.
Simple as that. Don't fund anything. Sell your case. Hold your base!
In November 2008, what the public will be thinking is this:
The Dems could have stopped the War!