I really can’t comment on the Gore/Clinton/Clinton speeches last night, because I didn’t watch them. After watching Jimmy Carter lecture me on foreign policy (really- what Jeff said), I decided to view something less absurd and threw in ‘Starsky and Hutch.’
I have looked at some of the text of the speech, and it seems to me that the recurring theme from all of them was not leadership, but tax cuts. It seems like they mentioned the tax cuts over and over and over again. I sure hope they keep it up, and we can get Kerry really on record as in favor of raising taxes. If you remember, even Bill Clinton was afraid of a campaign based on raising taxes. His solution was to simply lie and promise tax cuts, and then, of course, never deliver.
Ripper
I’m paraphrasing something I saw over at NRO, since I couldn’t be bothered to waste my time with the nonsense coming out of Boston, but apparently there was some complaint by the Dems that there wasn’t any shared sacrifice in this war. So it would seem that the only thing they support about the war is that it’s an excuse for the tax hikes they really want to fight a war they don’t believe exists.
Kimmitt
Very similar to Bush’s strategy of lying and promising jobs and not delivering. You may notice a theme here, where politicians promise things that people want and don’t necessarily give them.