According to Camille Paglia, who I would describe as an insightful realsist, the Dems can still lose the POTUS election unless they get tough on terror. Is she correct? I think so.
In Salon, Paglia writes, in part:
"The thick-headed Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld triad may have grotesquely bungled the Iraq incursion, but Republicans (barring a breakaway third party) will still comfortably retake the White House next year if my fellow Democrats don't get their act together on the cardinal issue of geopolitics. Terrorism isn't going to go away if and when we withdraw from Iraq. We need to recalibrate our global strategy and more intelligently address the fractured, dispersed nature of jihadism, which is germinating everywhere from Indonesia and the Philippines to the Western world. Throwing billions into the desert morass of Iraq isn't getting us anywhere -- especially with our porous domestic security and our alarmingly decaying infrastructure needing urgent remediation." For the whole peice see:
http://www.salon.com/...
I think she has a very strong point. And since I think Hillary is the only Dem with enough "_alls" to deal with the jihadists, I think she is the only Dem capable of winning the general election.