The "Popular President" Paradox -- A Brief Rambling Thought

[Mechatanketra]

A recent Letterman zinger: "We’re at war, there’s not many new jobs, the economy is bad, and we have a growing deficit. And the Democrats are still asking, 'How are we going to beat this guy?'"

I imagine this conversation continuing in my head. "Well, um, you could always promise to end the war, start job programs and expand welfare, reregulate the excesses that destroyed the economy, and raise corporate and millionaires' taxes to reduce the deficit."

Democrats: "Yeah, sure, but how do WE beat this guy?"

The great danger of compromise politics is it puts you one foot into the same quicksand the other guy is charging all the way into. :-(