Using Dems Votes for War as Leverage in 2006?

ShullsM said:

By using some of the Dems votes for the Iraq War Resolution, do Republicans gain a true upper hand, despite the fact that many of the Dems have come out and said they made a mistake and that many Americans believe they were decieved as well? Is this really going to be a hot button issue come 06?

My belief is that the whole situation must be reevaluated and that a vote for the war resolution combined with a changed view on what has gone on should not damage a candidate. Agree, Disagree?

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galenrox said:

Until one of the democrats gets the balls to ask if they would prefer, in the situation, would they prefer someone who'll admit when they've made a mistake or not.
Screw it, most of them are useless anyways, this backlash should push us in a more libertarian direction since that's for the most part the opposite of the Bush administration.

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galenrox said:

I really don't think it'll be that useful, the whole flip flopping thing, considering when we went to war 70% of people supported it, and isn't its support in the 30s now? Thus 40% of the nation has flip flopped on the war, so I doubt there will be too many holding that against them.
It reminds me of something that I saw on Real Time with Bill Maher, it was a fake Bush/Cheney commercial saying "In December 2001 Bush has 90% approval ratings, now he only has 37%, sounds to me like a flip flop. Americans, bad for America, paid for by Bush Cheney."

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galenrox said:

Of course they're reaching, it's all they have left. Over the last 5 years the republicans have been very successful by making sure the argument is always over something bad that a democrat did, and just ignoring everything that the republicans did. Liberals bit hook line and sinker, they believed that every little stupid thing that a conservative said needed to be debated. The main reason why this worked were there were plenty of legitimate complaints with a lot of democrats conduct that had been building up for years. Now the well has for the most part run dry, and for the most part all we have left to discuss is the leftover screwups on the republicans' parts, and this would be horrible for the republicans, and so now they're just clinging to whatever else they can claim is the real problem with the US hoping that we'll spend our time debating little pointless things instead of discussing the war, or Tom Delay's money laundering, or Bill Frist's insider trading, or the Downing Street Memos, or the Valerie Plame issue, etc.

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