Democrats are missing a killer strategy.

All the candidates should be emphisizing the morality question.

Link republicans with enron. The immorality of lies. Saying one thing and then doing the opposite. No child left educated.

There are many many more examples. We can all think of some.

The morality issue is ripe for the doing. The candidate who first uses it will be cheered.

says health care is a moral issue, same with fair trade.

Ends his stump speech quoting MLK about how we're all connected. A very strong message about fairness.

edit: and I agree it's a killer strategy, the immorality of Bush will be a no brainer to a lot of voters.

But, generally, any ground the Republicans attack on is where they themselves are soft and rotten.

If they attack on patriotism, it means they sold us out to multinationals. Real patriotic, that.

Attack on patriotism, that's where the buggers are weakest this time around.

Every time a Bush crony waves the flag while he writes a check, another American loses a job.

Tie his contributors to outsourcing. Make them damn nervous about putting all those checks in one basket.

Name names. Stop being shy because you hope someday to get a check yourself.

Tie Bush contributors and Bush money to the destruction of our natural resources.

Stop pretending these corporations are assets to America. They are bleeding us dry. (And then they'll make us pay for our water.) How many American businesses folded because Walmart cockroached into their communities?

Where is Walmart money? China? Switzerland? It sure ain't here.

Who has been prosecuted in Enron? Have they paid back anything they stole?

Bush and his pals party and our local taxes go through the roof because no one has any money but Bush pals.

And where the bloody hell was that coward on 9/11? Protecting his ass while we died.

It's going missing because it isn't considered important.

Kanary

I was just reading W.Rivers Pitt and I see the same possibilities...Bush sealed up the records so that the American people can't openly see the connections in current administration to the crooks who are back in town. Bush has sealed up the connections to Enron and Cheney et all; then reading further one could draw correlations to what CIA did in Venezuela to overthrow Democratically elected president who took money from oil income and put it toward the people. We backed his overthrow due to his oil interests, which is also the reason why Saudi Arabia wasn't added to the axis of evil, though they back terrorist. It's big business, oil and the corporate control of media which even makes enlightenment and truth coming out even a bigger challenge.

Greed as the root of evil... and causing great harm to others.

Link actual policies that encouraged GREED - such as styming efforts to protect the US (beef) food chain... because industry didn't want to pay...

Policies and funding levels (for things like the SEC) that allow corporate policies that allow the SWINDLING of hard working americans investment dollars in... corporate stocks (lying about revenues - making investing in the market a crap shoot because there are not legitimate reports to base investments upon)... the mutual fund industry (turning the eye away from practices that only benefit HUGE investors and the mutual fund traders... that skim off earnings for small investors)... and so on and so on.

Greed that gives tax advantages - and big payoffs to LARGE (campaign donor) Corporations - giving them HUGE subsidies that cuts their operating expenses... such that midsized companies and small businesses can not compete.

Greed that nurtures policies for sending jobs overseas (remember Bush assuring India that he would prevent state-level efforts at trying to keep white collar jobs in the United States.)

The list can and should go on.

Focus on all of the spending issues related to the reconstruction of Iraq - decisions made behind close doors, no compete contracts, NO OVERSIGHT, and HUGE BILKING OF TAX PAYERS. Halliburton is just the tip of the iceberg.

For the more fundie voter... talk about idolotry - raising the worship of money above God. How else to explain the business dealings of Cheney as CEO of Haliburton - who for BIG $$$$$$$$$$ helped Saddam rebuild his oil infrastructure - even though Cheney as former Sec of Defense believed Saddam was dangerous (he was for marching into Bagdad back in Gulf War 1) - and he believed it while pushing for the current war - but in the middle years... the DOLLARS to be earned trumped all. Same with Donald Rumsfeld... corporate board member of a company that sold nuclear energy equipment to... NORTH KOREA around 2000. The list goes on (and we should compile it) to demonstrate that these folks... where money is to be made... always put MONEY above morality.

Democratic candidates make themselves look like hypcrites when they talk against the war now, because they don't say they voted in favour of giving Bush permission to go to war because they believed the lies told to them by the Bush administration, for going to war in the first place. It makes them lose credibility IMO??????..

One candidate did not vote for war (even when I was brainwashed by misinformation and fear) and one candidate sued Bush for going to war. He is no hypocrite.

sort of paralized by fear of not being patriotic so they voted yes....but I just mean now...after the fact, I wish they would explain this....Don't you think the American people would understand?...I'm asking this as a non-American who is praying that ANY Democrat beats Bush in 2004!

There are plenty who are loyal and concerned - they need to be shaken loose with some well worded appeals to their conscious. Some still have it in their heart. They are not cruel like the current cabal, just blindly traditional.

Yes, they've done this little immoral thing called LYING.

They do it every day. They do it constantly. It's the administration of the LIE.

People don't like to be lied to.

Pretty much all you have to do is string together a videotape of all of Bush's lies. And it's pretty damning.

Bush is his own worst enemy.

I think that once the Dems have their candidate we will be able to focus on taking Bush out. Right now it's an unfocused free-for-all.