Topic: Election Notes
Thanks, but no thanks.
Over at Time Magazine Andrew Sullivan has an essay that will appear in the March 8th edition. In it he articulates what has always seemed to me to be a winning strategy for whomever it is the Democrats run against Bush in the fall. Many of us have been suggesting this since last summer. I've floated it to my email discussion group - my salon - and might have mentioned in it my magazine, Just Above Sunset. It's a way to cut Bush's feet out from under him while appearing magnanimous and gracious, and only just a bit condescending.
See If It Could Happen to Churchill...
Could it befall Bush? Why a wartime leader's success can be his downfall...
Time Magazine, Monday, March 08, 2004
Here's the core:
What's he going to do? Cry?Here's what a really smart Democratic contender could say to the President this fall: "Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership in difficult times. You made some tough decisions, and we are safer as a result. But the very qualities that made you a perfect pick for the war so far are the very ones that make you less effective from now on. You are too polarizing a figure to bring real peace to Iraq. You are too unpopular overseas to allow European governments to cooperate fully in the attempt to hunt down terrorists. And your deep unpopularity in half the country makes it impossible for you to make the necessary compromises that the country needs domestically. Thanks for all you've done, but bye-bye."
Pat him on the head and send him on his way. Heck, give him a shiny medal. He'll like that.
Posted by Alan at 19:34 PST
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