Why? No one votes this year. I think they will wait until 2008 to start defining their platforms, right now they are feeling out the electorate. There is still about 24 of the population that thinks this occupation of Iraq is winnable. George Bush is going to get his last surge and if it fails, then the fat lady has sung. There will be general agreement in America on a new direction and then the Democratic ideas will come out. Some Republican ideas will have to come out at that time, too. The GOP simply cannot run on more-of-the-same mindless neo-con policy. I think Bush has 2007 to make his latest plan work and work well. In 2008 the democrats, the republicans, . . . everybody will move on.
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htm "Now I'm going to read a list of candidates who might be running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008. If the Democratic presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today, listen carefully to the names and then tell me which candidate you would be most likely to vote for. . . ." % Hillary Rodham Clinton 40 Barack Obama 21 John Edwards 11 Al Gore 9 John Kerry 4 Bill Richardson 4 Joe Biden 2 Chris Dodd 1 Al Sharpton 1 Dennis Kucinich 1 Tom Vilsack - Other (vol.) 1 Unsure 6" ....and here's a bunch of polls showing the %'s when certain democratic and republic candidates face each other.... http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm
I tend to agree. Women won't vote for a woman. She'll end up being a lightning rod and a policy maker but early front runners get shot at for a long time and often don't make it out of the primaries. Some other democrat will emerge, perhaps a good-looking young southern populist. Republican women elected Sir William of Smooth in two elections. On the other hand, Giuliani is going to attract Democratic moderates and women. So far I don't see many candidates who are made out of presidential timber. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
I'd like to see the quote where she admitted it was a mistake. I don't believe she has publicly said that. She is not anti-war, only anti-Bush.
The Iowa caucus is in January, 2008. You don't think the voters should know the difference between Hillary's and Obama's Iraq plan before voting?
Did you forget the Iraq Study Group, who came up with a plan that both parties participated in and liked?
So they'll be campaigning this year and not have an Iraq plan to sell to the voters? Sounds like they are scared.
The study group is fine but until a candidate starts using the recomendations as their platform, it pretty much amounts to a bunch of wasted time.
