The Democratic Wedge Issue
So you're for the war. What are you willing to do to win? Is that yellow ribbon on your car just an empty gesture? Maybe this isn't the life or death struggle for freedom you make it out to be? Who's gutless? Who's spineless? Who's not willing to do what it takes?
This is the first line of attack I've seen that completely deflates all the conservative strengths: their resoluteness, their black-and-white clarity of the justness of this war, their willingness to do whatever it takes to win. It shows them to be cowards and hypocrites. It shows that regardless of their rosey scenarios, Iraq is not someplace they want to be. It says there is one thing they won't do to win: personally sacrifice. And it shows they don't think this war is worth giving their lives for, so how can it be worth yours?
Suddenly, we see the Republicans and their war for what they are.





Leave a comment