Comments on: Democrats’ worst enemy http://www.sharedthought.com/weblog/archives/52 shared thoughts on news, culture, technology, and politics Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:52:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John Rogers http://www.sharedthought.com/weblog/archives/52#comment-56 John Rogers Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-56 "The Democratic Party's inability to organize around a coherent platform and impose party discipline has always been a weakness." Maybe. But the Republicans have the same problem. I think their biggest problem (on the national level) has been their inability to form some kind of strong but liberal version of national purpose - the way Kennedy did. JFK could take about noble visions in the world, but nobody could doubt his cold warrior credentials. The democratic party still suffers from the Vietnam complex: promoting a weak and uncertain national purpose while hoping from the best from our enemies. When the issue is foreign policy, the dems lose. That is their biggest problem, particularly after 9/11. “The Democratic Party’s inability to organize around a coherent platform and impose party discipline has always been a weakness.”

Maybe. But the Republicans have the same problem.

I think their biggest problem (on the national level) has been their inability to form some kind of strong but liberal version of national purpose - the way Kennedy did.

JFK could take about noble visions in the world, but nobody could doubt his cold warrior credentials.

The democratic party still suffers from the Vietnam complex: promoting a weak and uncertain national purpose while hoping from the best from our enemies.

When the issue is foreign policy, the dems lose. That is their biggest problem, particularly after 9/11.

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