Republican Strategy for 2008

Carl Rove, largely responsible for crafting George Bush's election campaign, gave a speech today outlining a strategy for Republicans in the November elections. He says that Republicans should run on Bush's strength in National Security, juducial appointments, and the economy.

"We need a commander in chief and a Congress who understand the nature of the threat and the gravity of the moment America finds itself in," Rove told a meeting of the Republican National Committee in a rare public appearance.

"President Bush and the Republican Party do. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Democrats," he said.

Let me refer you to my post on how Americans national security policy has created more terrorists. Also consider that our relationship with France is destroyed, Germany is just being rebuilt (thanks to Conservative Merkel being elected), Tony Blair has been significantly weakened by critics of the war, and Italy announced yesterday it will be removing its troops by the end of the year. The loss of our alliances does not help security. Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose, and John Kerry yesterday gave fault directly to the administration (as pointed out in our comments). This record seems quite poor on national security, and doesn't even mention the horrible failures in Iraq, despite massive military spending ($453 Billion for 2006, or 453 Billion Crispy chicken nuggets at Wendy's). I'd say Clinton, although much more moderate/conservative than most prominent Democrats today did a much better job, with the $250 billion "defense" budget of his presidency.

Update: A new article on Daily Kos gives firm numbers to the general knowledge that terrorist attacks increased during Bush's "war" on terrorism.