Where Warner and Bayh paying attention in 2004 - I wonder.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-democrats.html

By REUTERS
Published: May 9, 2006


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moderate Democrats led by two potential 2008 White House contenders, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, urged the party on Tuesday to challenge Republicans on security issues and prove it can do a better job.

Democrats should embrace a security debate with President George W. Bush, who they said had been a failure in fighting terrorism, conducting the Iraq war and containing Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions.


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Warner, who has been trying to bolster his foreign policy credentials before a likely presidential run after one term as Virginia governor, said Bush's ``almost unprecedented'' list of mistakes in Iraq threatened to turn that country into a terrorist stronghold.

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Bayh said the Democratic election loss in 2004 was caused in part by a ``perceived problem with national security broadly defined, the war on terror more specifically.''

Well, they are describing all that Kerry has proposed and said in 2004, just as if it was new. BTW, the Democrats who challenge Bush the most on these issues are Feingold, Murtha, and Kerry.

I think Warner needs to get better on the issue if he intends to run, because this is not really impressive.

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1. There are still a number of Dems who think that

the Dems have to out-tough the Rethugs on National Security issues. The fact that we can't do that doesn't seem to occur to them. We need different thinking, not excessive thinking on security. We do need people who are going to react with their brains not with this weird 'I'm tougher than you' thing.

It is intelligent to make sure that our borders and ports are secure. It is smart national security to make sure that our friends and alliances are in good shape and that we have international neighbors who work with us and are not afraid of us. Sigh! So many Democrats are talking as if they were 'me too' Republicans. This is not innovative and it is not praiseworthy or noteworthy for the voters.