Another issue for Democrats...9-11!

Since September 11th, 2001, I have heard Democrats constantly complain about the Republican's use of the events in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. They say that Republicans just run on this issue and that they are creating a world of fear. Poll numbers show that Republicans are still trusted more when it comes to the war on terror than Democrats.

So what should Democrats do?

Well, use 9-11.

The Republicans have successfully said that if you don't vote for their party, that the world will basically end and that terrorists will attack the U.S. again. As you and I know that is totally hogwash.

But Democrats need to turn the tables on the debate. WE need to start scaring the people about terror. We need to start telling them how the Republican approach to terror is more hazardous to your health than the Democratic approach. We need to tell them that you will be safer under a Democratic administration than a Republican one.

And, yes, there is another thing that Democrats need to do, but very few will dare do it...

if Al Gore would have been President, 9/11 wouldn't have happened.

I know that most of us have programmed ourselves to think that 9/11 would have happened no matter who was president at the time. That is what we say when we are with friends talking about 9/11. But most of us Democrats know, deep inside our brains and hearts, that the Gore Administration would have taken the threat a little more seriously.

Most of us know that Gore wouldn't have sat there for, what, eight minutes and read "My Pet Goat". He would have been out of there.

We also know that the Gore Administration would have taken the "bin Laden Determined to Attack the United States", memo a little more seriously, and not pass it off as 'vague' as Condi and Dubya did.

I recommend reading "Take it Back" by Paul Begala and James Carville. They really do a good job explaining this concept (you need to buy the print version, as they do not cover it on the audio book).

Basically, we need to not be afraid of using 9/11. We are talking about the security of our country, and the way the Republicans have run things have shown that we are far from secure. We need to make the Bush Administration look like the incompetent people that they are.

Therefore, we need to use 9/11. Lets tell the American people what the difference is between our war on terror and the Republican plan.

Lets also not be afraid to say that, if Gore were elected, that 9/11 might not have happened.