Democrats have had the winning issue laid in their laps, yet.....

[kentuck]

they don't know what to do with it. Do they throw it away? Do they share it with their enemies? Do they lay it down and forget about it?

This issue encapsulates the war on terror and dramatizes the incompetence of the Bush Administration all in one fell swoop.

This is the only issue the Democrats really need to win the election. All the other issues are secondary to this one issue.

What is it? It is the "ports sale" issue. Democrats simply need to have the courage to use it. They need to pound the Republicans over the head with it unmercifully. Make them holler "Uncle". They have the power to do that with this one issue. Do not think the Repubs would not do it if the shoe were on the other foot...The Republican Party is about to betray our national security. If we cannot compete with that issue in our hand, we may as well give up and go home.

[pauldp]

1. I second that. n/t

[redphish]

2. I agree!!!

It seems like the repubs are making more noise about this than we are. We're letting a real opppotunity slip by. Our leaders need to WAKE THE F*CK UP.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. jr knows this, jr is going to fold that tent and move on.

You watch, he will scotch the deal and take credit for it.

[kentuck]

4. Junior wants this sale to go thru but he doesn't want his Party to suffer

So he may try something like an executive order, so as to keep his Party from having to vote or take a stand on the issue. It has tied them in knots. They don't know what to do. We can only welcome the rational Repubs to our side. :)

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I think they might work it in some other form. The result will be the same

but on the surface it won't look like this deal. I don't know how they will do it, but they will.

[kentuck]

7. I think they are looking for something called a "compromise"...

that they can convince enough Republicans that it will sell to the American people and then they will not be held accountable in November. However, that is going to take one Big Ass sales job!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. I think there are multiple decisive winning issues. The biggest in my

mind are first Katrina and next Iraq War, then abortion, and Plamegate, Ports, Abramoff corruption and a whole host of other things.

If Dems can't win with all that then the vote is crooked, they suck at politics, or both.

[kentuck]

8. Nothing is as strong as betrayal...

These port sales are a betrayal to our nation. People identify at a more personal level with it than most other issues, in my opinion.

[Sensitivity]

9. Took their shots too soon. NeoCon and RW congress is going to spin Ports

issue as they kill the deal and blame the Clinton legacy of globalization for turning ports
over to foreigners.

The only way the Republicans lose is if Bush wins on the issue by arm-twisting congress
into going along.

[sandnsea]

13. They aren't going to kill this deal

Have you not seen the recent poll over at freepville? It took them all of 3 days to spin them around to supporting the port deal. They just click their heals and say "free trade, free trade, free trade" and all the little bushbots start seeing dollar signs in their sleep. The port deal is going through and they are already making port security a union issue.

[Sensitivity]

15. Looks dead to me. Who in congess will vote for Arabs running Ports

It sounds crazy in the midst of this neocon "war of terror"

[kentuck]

10. Here is a relevant link from GD Politics...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2499682

[opihimoimoi]

11. I strongly suspect the Dem Party suffers from Ignorance... in the How To

Category.

They have the ammo but haven't figured out how to use it successfully. Its called Social Evolution....

still in 3rd grade....

as are the Pubs....

The Best Idea Usually Wins Dept.

[Hidden Stillness]

12. Two Huge Issues, Suddenly

We have two great issues that we are on the correct side of, and that the majority of people agree with: the ports deal, which is so shocking after all these years of "terror alert" manipulating of events, and the new threat to abortion rights by this threatening, overreaching South Dakota law. The attempts, wherever they are successful, to turn back the clock on abortion rights and further empower the anti-abortion terrorists, is viscerally frightening to most women, and there will be a backlash. Most people never thought it could be so easily taken away.

[kentuck]

14. The SD law is simply a replay of the MA gay-marriage law before last....

election. This will build up steam and Democrats will rant and rave and Repubs use the issue in several different states to bring out their base to retain control of Congress...