This is why guys like Cheney win, and the rest of us lose:

[PCIntern]

On ABC, the reporter, I believe Jonathan Karl, asked Cheney if Pelosi and others in the Democratic Party advocated a policy which is one of defeat in Iraq (Paraphrase). Cheney's response: "Yes."

Democrats would have answered the equivalent question equivocally. That's why in the 2000 debate with Gore and Bush, when Gore was asked if Bush was qualified to be President, Gore, rather than saying, "No", again, equivocated.

Losing mentality if you ask me. He should have said Yes, and I'll tell you why. There were many reasons he could have enumerated, any one of which would have resonated with sufficiently ambivalient people to consider NOT voting for Bush. Instead, he gave credence to this specimen, this puppet, and guess what. It led to this supremely unqualified but Supremely voted for (5-4) failure of a President.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. It is the absolute, black/white, vs the more nuanced grey.

One of the defining characteristics that separate the hard right from the left.

[AzDar]

2. I agree. The dichotomy being, diplomacy is so vital in a politician,

yet is perceived as being a weakness by some.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Pragmatic logic is easy and easy to understand ,thats why They won

Ignorance.

[Straight Shooter]

4. Cheney thinks anyone who disagrees with him, is advocating defeat.

Why are they talking to someone with a cloud over his head, anyway?

[PCIntern]

5. They smell blood in the water...

he has been making himself available for this routine.

Something's clearly going down.

[5X]

6. The most revealing part of this story is that the reporter would ask

such a question in the first place.

[PCIntern]

7. Good point, well taken. n/t