A BTT. We've often complained on FR that the Dems were concentrating on vituperation and letting the policy cupboard go bare. How bare that turned out to be has surprised even a number of Democrat partisans who now question what it is, exactly, they're going to take into the election other than the opposition's policies renamed. That isn't going to do - Clinton managed it but he was an incumbent. Kerry tried it and failed.
They could have appealed to their moderate base and improved their image considerably by presenting the first three of these policies in a bipartisan format and essentially taking the issue off the table. But their lunatic fringe wants to turn the election into another 1972 anti-war jubilee. This course attempts to satisfy both and will end up satisfying neither.
All the dems have is their "I hate Bush" rhetoric -- and Bush is NOT up for reelection.