O.K. this will get me flamed, but I'm getting worried about something [View All]

This isn't to single out Dean because every candidate has done it. But watching Hardball last night (which by the way I thought was one of Dean's best performances yet) I just couldn't help noticing that the proportion of saying what Bush was doing WRONG to saying what we (meaning any of the democrats) would do RIGHT was very out of whack. I counted 3 questions where he didn't answer the question with anything other than what Bush was doing wrong when the questions were specifically "What would YOU do...." questions. I've seen Clark do this as well as Kerry and every other candidate and I'm worried that it's going to take it's toll in the long run.

Now I understand that this fires up the base, and I understand that every single solitary last bit of it is 110% true. I'm not arguing with that nor am I saying that we shouldn't have any attack politics.

But I just know waaaaay too many people who are moderate, swing voters who don't even particularly like Bush, but who 1)Don't like attack politics and 2)Need a reason to vote for someone not against someone else.

So if most of the answers our candidates give are what Bush is doing WRONG rather than what he/she would do RIGHT, or even if every answer is prefaced with the former, I'm just really worried this is going to turn a lot of people off. I hear the gripe so many times that it's easy for the democrats to complain and bash but they don't offer any alternatives. And watching Hardball and the recent debates with that set of glasses on, I can see where people think that way.

So flame away. I hope I'm not right, but watching more and more interviews and debates and everything else I'm getting a sinking feeling.