The Washington Post reports that that the Democrats are seriously trailing the Republicans in the fund-raising race, and Howard Dean is being blamed for it.

Maybe if the Democratic Party sounded more like Candidate Dean, they’d raise more money, especially among the small donors. For example:

What is the Democratic Party’s position on the war in Iraq? Anybody know?

I went to the party’s site to find out. Holy crap, there are four major headings on the page: the blog, national, local and communities (= interest groups). The biggest issue in the country is the war in Iraq and it doesn’t even make it as a major heading in the Democrats agenda. “Dean Commemorates the Start of Yom Kippur” is on the home page, but not “Stop the war now!”

If you go to the pulldown for the small “Agenda” button at the top, the headings are: Strength at home, strength overseas, economic growth, better education…etc. “The war in Iraq” doesn’t make it into the top ten. The “strength overseas” link leads to a blog aggregator that does eventually list a few references to the war.

Here’s the closest I could come to a policy statement on the war, granted after only about five minutes of poking around: “That is why Democrats are unwavering in our commitment to pressing President Bush for a clear plan for victory in Iraq.”

So, Democrats favor “victory”? Then they bash Bush for not presenting a clear plan for it? Care to look in the mirror, fellas?

If the Democrats at this point still don’t have the courage to come out against the war, loudly, proudly and unambiguously, then to hell with them. [Tags: politics iraq democrats HowardDean]

spcoon made some of these same points, and a bunch of his own, last July. Seems like the site hasn’t hardly changed at all.

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