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Democrat Party's Fatal Attraction
By Arthur Bruzzone (04/01/04)
This presidential cycle, the democrats including their obvious nominee, Senator John Kerry, have ramped up to the Dean factor. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's emotionalism and progressivism have set the pace for Democrat Party candidates. Nearly all the presidential candidates have mimicked Dean's 'regime change' strategy; a total assault against George W. Bush, including the President's foreign and military anti-terrorist strategies.
As a result the democrats have again succumbed to their fatal attraction for the Left. The anti-war themes from 40 years ago are again popular, slogans from that era being used verbatim.
It didn't have to be so dismal for democrats. Joe Lieberman was closer to a winning strategy than most democrat leaders will acknowledge. Lieberman effectively took terrorism off the campaign table. He supported a robust counter attack against Islamic fanatics. He came from the dwindling Jackson wing of the party -- that's Henry "Scoop" Jackson not Jesse Jackson. "Scoop" Jackson, the Washington State democrat senator, believed in strong defense. Democrat President John Kennedy shared Jackson's strong defense beliefs.
Their strong defense posture had political advantages as well. But that was lost when the Left took over the Democrat Party in the sixties.
Then in the early nineties, republican candidates lost their competitive advantage over democrat rivals. For as long as polls have been conducted, Republicans have outscored Democrats in foreign policy and defense. The Cold War ended abruptly. The emerging but short-lived period of peace focused Americans inward, and on homeland issues upon which democrat candidates traditionally fare well..
Bill Clinton and his strategists knew this. Having had their weak side - defense -- neutralized with the demise of the Soviet Empire, Clinton and the democrats played to their strength and the republican's weakness-domestic policy, mainly jobs and the economy. Clinton trounced the foreign policy veteran Bush, Sr.
Now, the Democrats' fatal attraction has seduced them again. Despite Bill Clinton's best efforts, the party has moved to the left. Clinton tried to show his party how to appropriate the best of the Republican's principles - fiscal discipline and a balanced budget, for example - while slowly integrating progressive goals under the political radar screen. Incremental progressivism. Especially through his appointments, Clinton appeased his party's left while neutralizing Republicans key issues.
That strategy died with the Islamic terrorists' attacks on American soil. With the slaughter that day, foreign and military policy focus was back with a vengeance. The nuclear terror of the Cold War has been replaced with multi-faceted religious terrorism. The democrats are again at a competitive disadvantage; Americans still trust Republican leaders to do what's best for the nation's security.
That brings us back to Lieberman and "Scoop" Jackson. If John Kerry loses in November, the Democrat Party will again undergo wrenching self-examination. Conservative democrats will have a strong case for turning again away from the party's natural bias to the Left.
In the modern era, except for Clinton, the only democrat candidates who have won the presidency are candidates with a strong defense policy. Both their party and the nation would be better off if more defense-minded candidates emerge from the Democrat Party.
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Arthur Bruzzone is a well known San Francisco Bay Area political media
commentator, an award- winning public affairs TV producer, talk show host,
and served four years as Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party. He
has written over 150 political articles for national and regional media, and
has appeared or commented on political issues for American, European, and
Asian television and radio networks.
Art Bruzzone has been published in local, state, and national journals
including the Wall Street Journal. He's been a regular online columnist at
AmericanDaily.com, previously featured columnist at Townhall.com and other
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Media Appearances include guest or commentator on major national network
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state-local, and environmental issues. Bruzzone has been quoted in the NY
Times, LA Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and on urban policy,
international politics, and urban environmentalism
Bruzzone is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and owner an investment real
estate company, Bruzzone Strategic Investments. He holds a MBA from Golden
Gate University, and a MA in Philosophy from CUA, Washington, DC.
He has served as State Commissioner on the Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, Chair of San Francisco Republican Party, and Vice Chair of the
Count Chairs Association of the California Republican Party.
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