Reality Attack For Tom Daschle

10:11 am EST November 5th, 2005 | Politics | 2 Comments

Personally I hold Tom Daschle especially responsible for the listless position of the Democratic party in the last few years, because his limp leadership helped lead to the Republican majority in the Senate and the party’s morally bankrupt and politicially idiotic stance on the Iraq War. Maybe being out of office has led Daschle back to sanity.

Former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle is calling for all U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2007.

The South Dakota Democrat, defeated for re-election last November, planned to outline his foreign policy vision in Chicago Wednesday evening – two days before a planned visit to the politically pivotal state of Iowa.

There’s some talk of Daschle running for President, thats a conversation that is – quite frankly – dead on arrival for numerous reasons, but I’m glad that Daschle is on the right track.

RELATED: I’m liable to believe that no Democratic candidate whose position on Iraq boils down to “keep doing what George Bush is doing” has a snowball’s chance of succeeding in 2008, and quite frankly they shouldn’t. If you’re not serious about ending the mess in Iraq and ramping back up the fight against the increasing terror threat, you’re simply unqualified for the highest office in the land. Here’s a good survey of what the current landscape looks like.

I’ll also note that the only two Democrats of national prominence who have been 100% morally and tactically correct on Iraq and the larger war on terror since the beginning are Howard Dean and Al Gore. Governor Dean is best served working as the head of the DNC, but Gore…

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2 Responses to “Reality Attack For Tom Daschle”

Semanticleo says:

November 5, 2005 at 10:11 am

Daschle said last night he is going to Iowa next week. Bill Maher asked him if he is running and he got the same passive smile that signaled ‘dinner’ to all the sharks in Washington waters when he was Leader.

I don’t want to limit options, but diluting the democratic message more by having numerous candidates competing for the Media’s attention is going to distract the nation from matters that can’t wait for the results of the 2008 election. I’ve heard Hillary is silent on the war because she feels the republicans will self-immolate; and so, why take any risks? The risk to any single candidate is far less important than getting all remnants of this motley crew out of power eventually, and reversing the trends that so benefit the business sociopaths, before 2008.
Oliver Willis says:

November 5, 2005 at 10:11 am

We have to stop playing tactics in picking who’s going to be the standard bearer for our party.