Al Gore didn't lose Florida, by every recount he won, but I'm done with that argument, Bush is in the White House by a 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court and that's what happened, so we move one.
My party has had some problems, the primary one being that for years, leadership has allowed us to be defined by right-wing conservatives. Howard Dean is ending all that. We will be defining ourselves for a change. Hillary is right, the failures in Iraq, the failures on the Gulf coast, the failure to have an ethical administration, and the failure to control the budget deficit have all been Republican failures, Bush failures, and yes they do end up helping us win elections. He's failed. We didn't cause him to fail. We tried to help him succeed in Iraq. We tried to help control the budget deficit. The Gulf Coast and ethics are failures directly of Bush's adminstration. I'm sorry if you want to whine because Republican failures are helping people see that Democrats have a better way.
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