I wonder what it is like to belong to a party of failure and defeat. From Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Education, any other entitlement programs and more recently the War on Terror. What it must feel like to be the party that has so many feel good tax payer funded programs that are complete failures. To be the party that owns defeat in Iraq even while we are winning.
I certainly hope that the Republicans don’t let the American people forget the record of the party of failure and defeat. Their policies and ideas should be held up as example for what not to do when trying to do good things.
It is not just in Iraq that the political left has an investment in failure. Domestically as well as internationally, the left has long had a vested interest in poverty and social malaise.
The old advertising slogan, “Progress is our most important product,” has never applied to the left. Whether it is successful black schools in the United States or Third World countries where millions of people have been rising out of poverty in recent years, the left has shown little interest.
Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves “progressives.” What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.