Myself and many others see the Democrat party has not having the political will to do the hard and tough things to protect this country. For over three years now they have tried to surrender in Iraq despite steady progress towards our goal of a independent and democratic government there. They hosted the only minority group who feared the Taliban and doubted the decision to topple that regime and destroy much of Al Qaeda. They feared we would get outselves into a bloody quagmire. The Democrat confusion was epitomized with John Kerry’s spineless straddling on whether we should have gone to war in Iraq or not, being for it and against it in every sentence he uttered. Democrats fear standing up for the base (in being a strong anti-war party) and they fear standing up to their base. Fear and anger is what defines the remnants of that once great party I admired.

So why would anyone be surprised that the Democrats don’t stand up to anyone? Not terrorists, the polls, the media, the lunatics in the base. Read this commentary posted at RCP and realize the author is describing the core problem when he lashes out at their spinelessness, using examples of their spinelessness:

It took the Republicans about three weeks to make the Democratic politicians in Washington look like confused polled cattle. The ease and frequency with which the Republicans are able to emasculate the Democrats is past all get out.

Once again, there are the D’s out in the pasture with no horns and no balls. They had it done to them two years ago, when they and their candidate, John Kerry, allowed themselves to be ruined by the Swift Boat Veterans nonsense. How in Sam Hill does a national political party which led the United States into four major wars in the last century get itself tabbed again and again by its opponents as the cut-and-run party, the party of woofters, poofters and wankers?

This has been going on since the Civil War, as the Democrats have been successfully and successively defined by the G.O.P. as the Copperhead pro-slavery party, the soft-on-communism party and now the soft-on-national-defense party. What makes Democrats so wussy?

Priceless. Did it ever occur to the author that the reason the Democrats have this reputation is because IT IS TRUE!