Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Democrats' Narrow Vision
"Poll tested phrases" may be all right for selling products, but...
Here is a Washington Post story by Fred Hiatt discussing the Democrats recently released "Real Security" plan:
"You can look at the Democrats' national security plan, released last week, as simply a political shield, akin to the upgraded body armor they promise for U.S. troops.
The party remains traumatized by the failure of biography to protect Vietnam veterans Max Cleland and John Kerry from charges of being soft on security."
So "Real Security" -- with its red, white and blue cover, its poll-tested phrases (policies that are "both tough and smart") printed in English and Spanish -- is an amulet for 2006 candidates: You see? We have a plan. We Democrats will buy more weaponry than the Bush administration, sign up more troops, give more to veterans, inspect more shipping containers."
